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Challah Baking Tip #5 Pour, Don’t Scoop Your Flour.
This tip comes from my dear daughter-in-law, an extraordinary cook and baker. When using a 5-pound bag of pre-sifted flour in a recipe...
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Jul 91 min read
Challah Baking Tip #4: There are no Little Elves in your house...
...cleaning up after you. When I lived at home, my mother and I made the perfect pair. She loved to clean and I loved to bake. So every...
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Jul 21 min read
Challah Baking Tuesday Tip #3: Preflight your Kitchen Aid/Bosch
When using an electric mixer, (see tip 2), check that your bowl and dough hook are securely screwed in place before adding anything to...
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Jun 251 min read
Challah Baking Tuesday Tip #2: Knead like the Pros
Use an electric mixer if you can. I spent the first 25 years of my challah baking career kneading the dough, (for 10 full minutes) by...
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Jun 181 min read
Challah Baking Tuesday Tip #1
1- Always read recipe instructions ALL THE WAY through before beginning. This one applies to all recipes, all the time, but it really hit...
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Jun 42 min read
20 Best Dressed Bread Challah Baking Tips
I’ve been baking challah since forever ago when my sleep-away camp offered a baking workshop. We tackled complicated confections,...
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Jan 5, 20221 min read
Under Wraps: How to Keep Your Challah Dough Cover Looking Fresh & New
I have been asked this so many times that I figured a blog post Tip was in order. To keep my Challah Dough Cover Fresh & New, after I...
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Dec 21, 20212 min read
Taking a Stand. Low-Tech Standing Desk :)
Standing desks are all the rage, and you have decided to give this office/home improvement a try. Good move, (probably). I used to set...
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Dec 29, 20201 min read
Multi-Tasking Challah Baking Tip
I've discovered that when I bake a batch of challah, I can sneak in an extra baking task without any extra clean-up, (always a plus in my...
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Nov 26, 20201 min read
Tips & Tricks: Customize in Hebrew-עברית
WOW!—BIG NEWS - Some of our designs, like this one can be customized with HEBREW TYPE!! And it is as simple as switching your computer...
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Jun 16, 20201 min read
Home is Where...you Hang your Hat
It has been a while since we posted a Tuesday tip, but for sanity sake, this one just had to be shared. Five Boys home from Yeshiva + my...
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May 10, 20201 min read
How to shout MAZEL TOV at a ZOOM wedding—Even when muted :)
With Lag B’Omer 2 days away, wedding season is almost upon us. Each of these expressive Talk blurbs is set to print BIG on a separate...
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Apr 21, 20201 min read
Home Schooling: Botany-101
So with eggs at $4 a dozen, you may as well get something out of the carton as well. Right? And besides, these days, who wants to risk a...
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Apr 7, 20201 min read
Marror- Home Grown—Sort of :)
What in the world is this?! A few years ago I saved the tops of the Passover Marror root. I stood them in a shallow plate of water &...
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Dec 3, 20191 min read
Tomatoes Picked this Morning!
File this tip away for next fall: Next year, if your tomatoes are still green when the mercury drops- Try this:. Right before the first...
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Sep 17, 20191 min read
Tuesday Tip: Lettuce Checking Trick
DISCLAIMER: This tip has nothing to do with Challah but I find it so helpful that I had to share... If you buy Hearts of Romain and soak...
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Challah Baking Secret: Potatoes Can Do That?!
Reposting this tip because it saved me once again this year... (I even stock up on extra potato starch Post Pesach...while it is still...
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Apr 2, 20191 min read
For a Crispy Crust, Get Steamed.
Steam is the secret used by artisan bakers to give their bread a chewy, crispy crust. If that is the taste you are after, it’s easy...
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Mar 19, 20191 min read
Purim Tip: Sometimes it is good to be 'Labeled'
Speaking of Purim....When I was a kid, my job was to sort through all of the Mishloach Manos packages and make some sense of order from...
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Mar 12, 20191 min read
Read that Recipe Through..or Else...
DISCLAIMER: I was only a teenager and this was my first attempt at baking challah. I had all the ingredients assembled. As I worked...
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