Comments on: Yid. Dish: Bread Machine Egg Bread

By: duri

duri — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:30:19 +0000

Dear Home Shuling,
I make only parve breads in my machine. There is a good rcipe online for parve bread machine challah. Alternately, I use soy milk or almond milk instead of the milk. I f the recipe calls for dry milk I substitute the soy milk and then subtract the amount of milk that I used from the total amount of the liquid required in the recipe.
Susie Fishbein also has a parve bread machine recipe in one of her books. It is excellent.

By: Home Shuling

Home Shuling — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:52:37 +0000

I’m looking for a good bread machine challah recipe, but from a halachic perspective, this one’s problematic because kosher bread needs to be pareve. Have you tried it with water or a milk substitute?

By: Hannah Lee

Hannah Lee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:57:14 +0000

My rebbetzin uses her bread machine to proof her challah dough, freeing her oven for baking the rest of the meal. Me, I can spare my oven for the hour or so of proofing, and I don’t have to give up counter space to another gadget!

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:37:55 +0000

Lisa,
I have friends that use their bread machine to mix up their “egg bread,” then take it out of the machine after the first rising to shape the dough and braid it into challah. After shaping, it rises again and gets finished in the oven.
I actually enjoy the mixing and kneading by hand. It doesn’t take that long, and while getting my hands into the dough, I get to get some of my aggression out while having that playing in the mud fun. I have also enjoyed learning to braid 3 and 4 ropes, and making crown challah for the High Holidays. In any case, nothing beats the smell of baking bread!