Arts as Astra

Last week, DS1 got it into his head that he wanted to make bread. He was inspired by What Do People Do All Day, that classic Richard Scarry book. And hey, Rosh Hashanah is coming up. So we made some challah (known as yellowbread to DS1) over the weekend.

"Can you say CHallah?" "Hallah." "CH, CH, CHallah." "Hh Hh hallah." "Close enough."

"Don't put too much yeast in!" (You have to have read the book...)

"It's good, but a little too sweet." "It's supposed to be sweet." "Oh, well then it's fine."

I used the holiday challah recipe from the Jewish Holiday Cookbook, from which comes all my knowledge regarding Jewish holidays. It's basically an extra-sweet egg bread. I was short on honey, so I threw in a little extra sugar, and it turned out plenty sweet. We made two loaves -- one a regular braided loaf, the other a lumpy spiral, because I seem to be incompetent at shaping bread. And since we started Saturday after dinner, I stuck it in the fridge overnight for the second rise and baked it in the morning. Mmmm, fresh-baked challah for breakfast!