[CottonBall]

I made it and it is beautiful! If I say so myself. I kept having to stop and start the video, with my greasy fingers :-( now I have to clean my tablet. Anyway my first try was pretty bad so I undid it all and started again and got the hang of it.

I couldn’t decide whether to sprinkle it with sesames seeds or poppyseeds, so I did half on one side and half on the other. That’s why it looks kind of funny.



You can click on the picture to have it get bigger.

[CottonBall]

I guess you don’t need it bigger! That’s weird, that website normally just posts what it calls thumbnails.

Sorry to anyone with a slow Internet connection!

[trisham]

Beautiful!

[Aliska]

Oh my! That is beautiful!!! Love the seeds. I never have them and need so few no point in stocking up. I thought I found a bag of sesame seeds in my freezer but wasn't sure what they were or where I got them. You did a fantastic job especially for your first time. It's not quite as hard as it looks but you do have to concentrate on what you are doing.

Your friends are going to be impressed and want loaves of it. Now you have a new skill! I saved your photo. Thank you!

[Aliska]

P.S. It's got a lovely rise to it. If your yeast is fresh enough, you get at least a couple or 3 chances with it. I think I mentioned I'd like to tweak the dough, would keep the eggs, of course, but like a little more yeasty smell and taste that doesn't bake out. Maybe that's not authentic. As I recall, the bread has a nice texture but a bit dense.

We all loved Phyllis Stoke's square hamburger buns. She uses a lot of fresh yeast and also sugar. It's too sticky for Challah but more flour should fix that. The finished result has that extra homemade something taste (to us). Like my mom's homemade baking did (her specialties were crescent rolls and English tea rings. And she used a sweet roll-type yeast dough for the crescent rolls. I never knew her to make puff pastry of any kind.

Regardless, huge kudos to the woman (assumed) who came up with that kind of bread.

[Yaelle]

Mmmm, I love the half sesame, half poppy. I can almost smell that loaf through the Internet.

[boatbums]

Beautiful!

How did it taste? I’ve heard challah makes a great French toast and bread pudding if you have leftovers.

[Trillian]

That turned out great!
There is nothing like a slice of fresh egg bread with laughing cow cheese and peppers fried in olive oil.