Golden-brown, sesame seed-covered braided challah loaves sit on a wooden cutting board - Olga Mazyarkina/Getty Images The idea of baking sweet, eggy challah at home can be daunting. Jewish cooking ...

For novice challah makers, the braid can seem like the hardest part of the bread recipe. Follow these simple steps to make a six-strand challah round. Scroll all the way down for a how-to video on the ...

Beautifully braided, rich, and lightly sweet, freshly baked challah is delicious on its own or smeared with softened butter. After a few days, it's great dunked in custard and made into French toast ...

The Jewish holidays are early this year. Really early. (You know what they say – they’re either early or late, but never on time!) For Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which began last night, ...

This undated photo provided by America's Test Kitchen in October 2018 shows challah in Brookline, Mass. This recipe appears in the cookbook “Bread Illustrated.” (Carl Tremblay/America's Test Kitchen ...

The good smells of baking challah and the sweet golden braided bread emerging from the oven have distinguished the Jewish Sabbath in a long-kept tradition. During the High Holy Days, starting with the ...

No matter how good a bakery challah tastes, baking it myself tastes better. Golden and fragrant and topped with toasted seeds, mine will be on the table for the first night of Hanukkah on Tuesday.

Bernie Friedman came to Olympia via Brooklyn in 1975. At home, Friedman could visit a Jewish bakery every three or four blocks. In Olympia, he couldn't get his hands on a good blintz, bagel or loaf of ...

Start to finish, making challah is a multisensory, multilevel process: mixing ingredients into dough, taking time to let it rise, punching it down, letting it rise some more, separating the dough into ...

Aykroyd isn’t the only person who feels this way. The actor and former “Saturday Night Live” star is one of many fans of challah, the braided egg bread that has its roots in Jewish kitchens but also ...