Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Challah Shape: Croatian Star

Here is a neat star I made last Shabbat.  I learned this method in A Blessing of Bread: The Many Rich Traditions of Jewish Bread Baking Around the World by Maggie Glezer.  The author writes that it isn't really a "Jewish shape" but when done with three strands it becomes a "Baroque Star of David."

Silly me, I made it with four strands.  So it's not a star.  But it was still pretty neat!!!!!!  

This bread had some rosemary and garlic powder needed it.  Delicious!
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Start on one side and coil around...
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And didn't it turn out sooo lovely... didn't last long!
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7 comments:

  1. that would be nice for Rosh Hashannah!

    -Andrea

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  2. Yeah! I'm going to add that as a tag. :)

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  3. I made one of those this week with the extra dough from our challah recipe - very cute! Thanks, Amanda!

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  4. this came out gorgeous - and it is SO simple!!

    thanks SO much

    -Andrea

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