Grammy's Kitchen · Challah · Challah Bread
One of 14 challah recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
It ranks #1 of 14 for softness among the challah recipes we compared. 29 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 14.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 26% | 49% |
| fat | 12% | 11% |
| total sugar | 11% | 17% |
| egg | 33% | 33% |
| yeast | 0% | 1% |
| salt | 2% | 2% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 461 g | 3 to 3 1/4 cups (15 to 16 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour, (plus more for dusting) |
| 1 envelope (2 1/4 teaspoons) instant yeast | |
| 50 g | 1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces) sugar |
| 8 g | 1 1/4 teaspoons fine sea salt |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs, one egg separated ((reserve the white for the egg wash)) |
| 57 g | 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) unsalted butter, (melted) |
| 118 g | 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon water, (at room temperature) |
Method: 5 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“hey! I've used your recipe every year on Christmas eve for 5 years now. Sometimes it's perfect, sometimes it's dense and tiny. I've read that there can be too much time rising which changes the texture. What are your thoughts on that? Everytime it turns out de” — a cook, 5.0★
“I found the video first and was frustrated that it doesn’t provide the measurements for the ingredients. And no place to leave a comment. I do not have a stand mixer so used my hand mixer. Dough was EXTREMELY sticky and almost half of it was lost due to sticki” — a cook, 3.0★