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Flower Shaped Challah

Flower Shaped Challah Here’s a quick flower shape for your round challahs… a nice idea for Rosh Hashana as well as for Shavous. Ingredients Line a round pan with baking paper. An 8-10 inch round pan is a good idea and size. Cut your dough into six – eight equal parts. Roll each one out…

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Apple Beet Cake

Apple Beet Cake Great idea just in time for Rosh Hashana! Here’s a sweet, new idea on how to creatively incorporate some of our ‘regular’ Rosh Hashana foods in newer ways, beets, apples and a healthy sweet cake! This freezes great and with all the beets, apples and whole wheat it is a healthier alternative…

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Easy and Elegant Round Challah Shaping

Easy and Elegant Round Challah Shaping One quick idea that I can share with you here is a very simple but beautiful knot: Make three long strands of dough and then braid them into a simple, regular braid of three. Then, holding this now long braid, knot it into a circle and bring the end…

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Authentic Chassidic Challah

Authentic Chassidic Challah This recipe is from Rebbetzin Sarah Meisels Biographical note: Rebbetzin Sarah Meisels was raised in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of the well known Chassidic Grand Rebbe, R’Shlomo Halbershtam, zt”l (obm). R’ Shlomo was a scion of the Bobover Dynasty, and led a large community of Chassidim in pre-war Europe, following in the…

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Sweet Mixed Whole Wheat Egg Challah

Sweet Mixed Whole Wheat Egg Challah Ingredients This larger amount makes enough dough to get the mitzvah of hafrashas challah, ie, separating challah with a blessing. It makes 6 larger challahs, 8-9 medium sized ones. 10 cups / 1.5 kilo very finely ground whole wheat flour (or one of the whole wheat flours that are…

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Mini Carrot Muffins

Mini Carrot Muffins Yield: about 50 mini- muffins Or, if you want the easier way out, make it as a 9×3 “kugel” and cut it into squares… Ingredients 4 eggs 1 cup canola oil 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/3 cup hot water 3 cups flour, whole wheat, white, or a combo ** 1 &…

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Healthy, Margarine-free Apple Crisp

So good you will use this often I prefer this apple crisp served cold but if you are the kind that likes it warm, leave it on top of another pot on the blech for 2 hours before serving it. Healthy Apple Crisp No margarine, no white flour and plenty of good things in this…

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