A little history ....
The challah (in Hebrew, Hebrew, חלה) is a typical bread in Jewish culture. Made with eggs, flour, water and sugar, which gives it a slight sweet taste. Sephardic Jewish groups that prepare you typically consume on Saturday (Sabbath in Jewish culture) and holidays. Respecting the rule called Kasherut Jewish power, the challah never contain milk or butter as this specific rule can not mix dairy with meat, and often the challah is used for this purpose. Before
eat this bread and bless the Jews that commemorates the manna that fell from the sky during the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after the Exodus from Egypt. The name of Mana is the biblical name that receives the food of course that fell from the sky.
A Challah is sometimes also called a piece of dough that is separated, the result of practicing Jewish law: before baking this bread is to discard a small portion of dough, which in biblical times as a tax reserved for the priesthood Jewish. As the Bible did not specify how much separating the rabbis came to an agreement that individuals should separate a 1 / 24 mass while professionals Bakers 1 / 48. Currently there are still those who follow this ritual but separate part is discarded, ie, lying to organic.
On New Year's Challah usually spiral, which symbolizes the cycle of the year.
This recipe is still made frequently by many Jews around the world, and especially where major concentration of these is, in Israel, but that does not mean you have special regard for this country, at least not in these dates we are about to reach the thousand Israeli Palestinian casualties under fire, while those killed in the Jewish camp not even ten. Who speaks for Israel to "respond" to Hamas? Do you respond by ... multiplying. 100 and schools and attacking civilians? Not if there is no excuse for everything ... Hamas uses children as human shields. So it is bombarded a UN school and 3 children die and many others are wounded and the fault of Hamas, who has put children in a school to use the "shield."
Not that the armed wing of Hamas are saints ... nothing is further from the truth. Anyway, as in any war, those who pay are the ordinary people, civilians.
Recipe:
700 g bread flour 50 g sugar
1 pinch salt 2 eggs (I use 2 in size large)
60 g oil (sunflower mix, softer, or olive oil, something stronger. You can mix)
230-250 g of water (adjusted according to the absorption of the flour)
20 g brewer's yeast or similar .
1 egg white 1 dash of milk
When calculating how much yeast you can take to see the instructions usually come the envelope or wrapper, which usually indicates the amount of yeast in relation to the flour (a on by X g. of flour).
1 - Mix the yeast with sugar, a tablespoon or two of water and a meal (subtract from total). Mix a little and let stand about 15 min.
2 - Gradually add the remaining ingredients and go kneading, the kneading or baking or, alternatively by hand. It is advisable to first go and then adding solids, liquids gradually. Finally, and little by little water to control the amount necessary to have an elastic dough but not sticking to the fingers.
3 - Once we knead until dough is smooth touch let stand one hour and two in a warm place. I use the oven set to between 30 and 45 degrees. Anymore because it "would kill" the yeast. Should at least double its volume.
4 - After this time, and with the mass flood we catch again and we press it and knead a few times, to remove all air. Now mount touch the pan, fitting it gives us options. The first is to choose. I set out to make a of the most complicated, the star you see in the pictures, but tradition is a braid of between 3 and 7 rolls of dough. Elijáis elijáis what is best though and then divide the dough into as many parts exactly as we need to create our work. As you are going to do you can get two loaves to pose as the dough you have more than a kilogram of weight. The dough is handled very well so I cut small pieces and cash them together to achieve nearly identical portions should not be any problem.
5 - elongated rods to achieve sufficient mass stretching force manually turn it on the table. I recommend having a bowl of water next to moisten your hands and go, this will greatly facilitate the work. Once we have the rolls ready proceed to the assembly.
types of assemblies:
5-pointed star (step by step by me below)
Braid 1 piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_guFQR-6dw4&feature=related
Braid 2 pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPnB0Sgc-Q&feature=related
Trend of 4 pieces: ttp: / / www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RvoqkYaUWo&feature = Braid related
6 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22p3wIHLupc&NR=1
6 - Once assembled what we stand for half an hour to an hour in a warm place similar to the one before, 30-45 degrees. Grow back a bit. After this time we paint with a beaten egg white with a splash of milk and a pinch of salt. We bring in a preheated oven at 200 º about 30 or 35 minutes. If we get a shiny gold should play with the height, putting it at the beginning of baking it up (which are usually found to provide heat resistance). That if you have to watch it so it does not burn. It may also be desirable to paint it again with egg mixture and milk in the middle of baking. If you see that you are burning above and can still not done cover with foil.
Mounting star:
1 - We weighed the bread and divide into 13 portions. We weighed each portion in order to be as similar as possible.
2 - reserved a portion and the other we 12 oblong pieces, as shown in the picture. It is important that they have similar lengths, but more importantly they have very similar thickness.
3 - Now we put in pairs, spending over other. It is difficult to explain it in words for it are images, but I'll try it. As each roll is doubled we get a total of 6x4 = 24 points. It's about making 6 groups of 4 points. In each group the points on the far left and far right are the next group, being linked. It is important to always coming in from the right group to pass below the first point with which it is located. Note that in the photo showing the star with 24 points, before braiding, there are some errors corrected before you in twisted, so reliable over the image with the frame in red.
4 - Once we have correctly assembled the 24 tips, began to weave. It is much easier than it looks. In each group of 4 we take the point more to the right, which we call tip 4. We will go from right to left. The pass above your left, 3, under the following, 2, and over the following, 1. Rearrange the points. And repeat, we take the right over and over-under-over. Eye, do not tighten, then the mass that will grow and remain firmly packed. Moreover, the fact will allow us not to stretch back if we're wrong. When you finish a braid can cut the tip or by squeezing a sort of stump. It is appropriate that the braid finish the draw near the middle, with the objective that are close together and the center space is limited.
5 - In the middle ... I took the lot number 13 and made two small rods, which link the fly. Do as you please with the portion 13 to decorate the middle.
6 - It is, to stand, painted with egg and milk and bake.
The truth is that I ended up with something quickly. If you want to make it more streamlined, I recommend making the finest sticks. Note that the star
me to become somewhat "funny" shape after baking. That's because that I had to put together the tips to the side because otherwise I do not fit in the oven ... An interesting variation is to bend a little tips to look like a starfish or something.
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