Anne’s holiday bread
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
This is a challah-like bread (egg bread) minus some of the eggs and with raisins. Anne just made six of them and the house smells pretty darn good, wish there was a way to get that smell into an image.
On Christmas morning she’ll heat up a few of these and make a glaze of powdered sugar, butter, and lemon juice to drizzle on top. Wish you were here.
If it taste as good as it looks you will be in for a treat
Ross: better! Come on by and try some.
Looks great, and I bet it’s wonderful. Enjoy!
It is, wish you were here to eat some.
Me too!
Mom’s xmas bread is a tradition on Christmas starting since I can remember and probably before. Now that I have my own little family I ponder coming up with a yummy tradition of my own but I have not thought of the perfect thing yet. Plus I’m not the baker mom is…
Anne says that it’s about 32 years old (the tradition). The recipe is from the Tassajara Bread Book which she knows she got that year.
Baking is really not that hard (if I can do it, you can do it) so you could, if you wanted, continue the tradition. Or, of course, come up with your own.
Anne says that you girls thought this bread was cake and she never told you otherwise. I like that part of it.
This Bread looks good I bet it tastes good too.
Jim: it really does. I highly recommend getting the Tassajara Bread Book, one of the best cookbooks of all time. Very easy to read, great, simple recipes, and this bread is in it. It also has the pancake recipe I make every sunday.
mmm looks very very tasty!
Gedas: It is and we ate a lot of it this year. Great toasted.