That’s what my friend called me when I told her what I did yesterday.
I baked 8 kg of flour’s worth of challah, cake and bread.
My 13yo noticed, after examining the shells of the 15 eggs my 3yo had cracked, that I had miscounted and was still two short. I cracked those.
My 17yo son shaped all the challahs.
I even took my little ones around the block on their bicycle/tricycle in the midst of it all.
I ended up with about six loaves of whole wheat bread, three yeast cakes, and over a dozen challahs and rolls of various sizes. (My mother a”h didn’t like to count food items, like matzah balls–I guess it’s because of ayin hara, the evil eye. She also would have said that a hallmark of homemade food is that it’s not perfectly shaped.)
A shortage of pans provoked a theological discussion about whether it was appropriate to bake challah in a round pan for a standard Shabbat. My daughter said that the challah would probably last us until Rosh Hashanah anyway (when round challah is appropriate) and my son predicted that it would last for two weeks.
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Hey, I finished Vayikra!
I haven’t heard from you in a while.
How are things?
Mighty fine looking baked goods.
Larry
Wow- yum! Everything looks so delicious – especially those yeast cakes. I’ve made cakes like that a few times, though not in a long time
Enjoy your bounty. Two weeks is probably about right!
please post the recipe for the yeast cake. my mother used to make similiar looking ones and she lost her recipe. yummm
Oh my goodness! These look delicious!!
Thanks for posting the photos!!
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that is an awful lot of challa! My wife bakes challa every week, but 8 kilo is a ton!
Yum! They look great!
I have submitted this post to JPix (due up on thrus at Letters Of Thought) and will also include it in KCC later this month.
Nice work!
Larry–I have been by, but with no comments. Congrats on finishing Vayikra!
RM–we’ll see! I already gave one challah away to a very pregnant friend. . .
Sara–I just roll out challah dough, brush with oil, then sprinkle sugar and cocoa or cinnamon. Then I roll it up.
P&B –Thanks for stopping by.
Rafi, I am always under pressure on Fridays when I have to bake.
Balaboosteh–Thanks SO MUCH for saving me the trouble!
I imagine that Stand Up Freezers are not popular in Israel? The challah could be made to last in one of those. I really can’t wait to get one. A friend of mine told me her mother starts to cook, bake, and freeze for the High Holidays and Sukkot after Shavout. I’d love to be that kind of person too!
SL, I’m talking about how quickly it will get eaten! I have a stand-up freezer. But I’m really not thinking about Rosh Hashanah yet. Actually I am thinking about it, but I’m not cooking yet for it. Even if it will be three days.
How do you keep the Challah fresh? Our’s goes stale in 2 days!
Looks great. Did you knead all 8 kilo in one huge vat?
We sometimes have round challah on a regular Shabbas, particularly if I buy a pull-a-part type. And when I bake, I make round rolls inaddition to the braids (for shalosh seudos lechem mishna)
WOZ, nice to see you! I keep it in the freezer.
I bought a huge plastic vat; I kneaded the bread dough (3kg flour) in a smaller bowl and the challah/cake dough (8kg) in the big one. A friend told me about the pull-apart round challah and I tried to explain it to my son but he didn’t get it and it came out as rolls! I actually make round rolls for Shabbat all the time and never thought anything of it. Now that you mention it LOL.
Round Challa: someone beat me to it, but always appreciated is a pull-apart challa, let me know if you want the recipe (honey and white flour but you can make it with any dough). I am amazed you worked with 8 kg of flour. I have gone down to a 1 kg (8 1/2 cup) recipe and from that I make challa rolls; a batch lasts our family of 6-7 people 3-4 weeks. I was throwing away too much challa (okay, making too much French Toast) when I made big loaves. This way each person gets a piece and there is no waste. I guess you could say we are not big challa eaters – and that is with amazingly delicious (white flour) home-made challa! Kol HaKavod to Mom and family!!!!
hmmmm I’ll have to try freezing it! I assume you wrap it in plastic wrap?
After seeing this post I will no longer go at making ours with a sigh! you are increadible!
I have been keeping up on reading here, but haven’t had the chance to comment until now….life!
Tamiri–maybe we are exceptionally big challah eaters. Especially when they are fresh. We find that we need to buy 3 challahs for a regular Shabbat.
WOZ–glad you are still around. I wrap them in used bread bags and two-gallon ziplocs for the big ones.
Looks good.
They look great. Can you share your recipe for the cakes in the top picture?