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Challah

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I love bread. My friends and I sometimes have dinners that only consist of bread and cheese. And wine. Hitting all of the major food groups.

One of my favourite things to do is make my own bread, and one of my favourite cookbook’s is Molly Yeh’s Molly on the Range. I got it the day it was published and I’ve never been disappointed with anything I’ve made from it.

This is the basic challah recipe from her book and this recipe is foolproof. If you can bread hair, or really just twist strands of something together, you can 100% make this bread. It’s light, fluffy, soft, basically the ideal bread.

You can eat it by itself, slathered with butter or jam, or even do what I did with one loaf and use it to make French toast. Honestly, you’ll never be buying store-bought challah again. And you’ll probably not be making French toast without challah again either. IT’S SO GOOD.

I first made this a couple of months ago and I’ve made it a few more times since then because people really cannot get enough of it. My girl Molly knows what she’s doing when it comes to all things challah!

People always think bread-making, especially bread-making that involves something other than just casually throwing the dough in a loaf pan is too complicated but let me tell you, it isn’t. For this all you do is mix together ingredients, knead it and leave it to rise. Then you deflate it, shape it, let it rise again and bake. Piece of cake from beginning to end. Don’t be intimidated by the braiding process. You can do it. I believe in you.


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  • ahh this looks so good!! agree that french toast with challah is a game changer. i definitely shy away from yeast and bread (probably bc i’ve used old yeast a couple times which obv doesn’t really work), but all the recipes i’ve tried from molly so far have been amazing (have you tried her matcha cake recipe?!) so i’ll have to give this one a go (:

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