Gratitude Practice Day 12/30
🕯Making Challah for Shabbat🕯
Yesterday I taught my little sister how to make challah. It’s such a beautiful experience to make challah together. It’s something I have grown to love since I started making it weekly in 2021.
In my quest to make delicious challah, I’ve sought the advice of many women and had so many wonderful conversations.
Challah is connection.
The art of making challah and preparing for Shabbat is so meaningful when done in community. It takes me all day to make my challah. And in between the mixing, multiples risings, kneading, braiding and baking are so many beautiful intimate conversations. Just being together in the kitchen, preparing for a beautiful meal to eat together is so special.
The preparation is part of what makes challah so delicious.
For a long time my challah was dense and thick. Delicious, because it’s fresh baked bread, but it wasn’t how I hoped it would taste. Sometimes it has tasted straight out like a pretzel!
It was a mic drop moment for me to learn that the secret ingredient is slowness.
Challah does not like to be rushed.
It needs space and time.
It needs to sit, and it needs air.
That is (partly) what makes it light and fluffy.
So yesterday, we spent a good amount of time rolling and kneading the dough, talking in the kitchen, laughing, telling stories, eating and resting in between risings.
And our challah yesterday was one of my best yet.
It’s gorgeous alchemy and magic how a bunch of random ingredients get mixed together in a specific way and turn into something beautiful that brings people together in the most beautiful of ways, every Friday, and no matter what, Shabbat always comes.
pic: me marveling at my sister’s first challah!
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