Challah Braids

Challah, a traditional Jewish egg bread, is a family tradition for Maundy Thursday. This year I made it a little early to serve with the breakfast treats at church.


Braided and rising.


Golden brown and sprinkled with sugar. The usual coating is an egg glaze and poppy seeds applied before baking but I wanted it to be a little sweeter so that people would try it. It's amazing to me that given a choice between store-bought danishes or cookies and homemade goodies, people will go for the corn syrup, fake fruit and preservatives every time. I suppose that with the manufactured treats, they have a better idea of what they are getting whereas the homemade food is an unknown quantity.


But doesn't this look good?