Mom's Challah
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Mom (Sandra)
Mother · Tel Aviv · 1990s
★★★★★· 3 hr 30 min· serves 2
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“The smell of this baking is Shabbat itself. Braided by hand every Friday.”
The original card
Mom's Challah
(the original handwritten card will live here)
The recipe in Mom (Sandra) own hand — scanned and kept exactly as it was. The typed version below is for cooking; this is for remembering.
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Ingredients
Serves
2
- 4 cupbread flour
- 2 tspactive dry yeast
- ⅓ cupsugar
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cupvegetable oil
- 1 cupwarm water
- 1½ tspsalt
Steps
- 1
Bloom yeast in warm water with a pinch of sugar (5 min).
- 2
Mix in eggs, oil, sugar, salt, then flour. Knead 10 minutes.
- 3
Rise covered until doubled, about 1.5 hours.
- 4
Divide, roll ropes, and braid into two loaves.
- 5
Egg wash, rise 30 min, bake at 350°F (175°C) for 25–30 min.
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Alon
2026-06-06
“Maya braided this one. Came out golden.”
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