12 April 2012

Paul's Easter Challah

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Paul's Easter Challah - we used the challah recipe from Peter Reinhart's bread book and we found that it was too dry. So no recipe for today, but I thought it was pretty to share.

In the future, I would have mixed the food coloring into the liquid mixture when making the bread (in this case the liquid mixture was eggs + water + oil). We tried to knead the food coloring into the dough after it was formed and it didn't quite distribute evenly.

9 comments:

Heather Woollove said...

Hahaha, Mercedes...The photos of your dyed Challah looked like a luscious hand-dyed braid of wool roving to me!!
I guess you can tell that I'm a felt artist! :)
http://www.woollove-functional-fiberart.blogspot.com/

Dea-chan said...

It is pretty though!

Dea-chan said...

It is pretty though!

Jessica said...

For what it's worth, I think the uneven marbled-ness is probably prettier than if it were all a solid colour :)

Anonymous said...

Get the color right next time

Anders@icecreamnation.org said...

I find the colours fascinating, particularly as they show in the first picture:-) Did you use "standard" food colouring or some more elaborate colouring agents?

Mercedes said...

Nope just regular old food coloring, although I did contemplate whether using paste food coloring would have been better.

And yes! It totally looks like wool, or play-doh, or something silly, that's why I had to post it!

lynn2mary said...

And how did it taste?

lynn2mary said...

How did it taste?