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Yeast bread Poland, Ukraine: Sweet, braided bread popular among the Jewish diaspora. Bagel: Yeast bread Ashkenazi Jewish: Ring-shaped, usually with a dense, chewy interior; usually topped with sesame or poppy seeds baked into the surface. May be boiled in lye. Baghrir. Beghrir, ghrayef, mchahda Baghrir with sugar: Pancake: Maghreb (Algeria ...
Hefekranz or Hefezopf (literally "yeast wreath" and "yeast braid") are sweet breads from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. The dough is made from sugar, flour, butter, eggs and yeast (sometimes with raisins or almonds). Typically both Hefezopf and Hefekranz consist of three braided dough-pieces.
The bread has ancient origins, and comes from the pagan belief in the magical properties of grain. [3] Korovai was a large round braided bread, traditionally baked from wheat flour and decorated with symbolic flags and figurines, such as suns, moons, birds, animals, and pine cones. [4]
Challah or hallah (/ ˈ x ɑː l ə, ˈ h ɑː l ə / (K)HAH-lə; [1] Hebrew: חַלָּה, romanized: ḥallā, pronounced [χaˈla, ħalˈlaː]; pl. [c]hallot, [c]halloth or [c]hallos, Hebrew: חַלּוֹת), also known as berches in Central Europe, is a special bread in Jewish cuisine, usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions such as Shabbat and major Jewish holidays ...
A chocolate babka made with a dough similar to challah, and topped with streusel. It consists of either an enriched or laminated dough; which are similar to those used for challah, and croissants respectively, that has been rolled out and spread with a variety of sweet fillings such as chocolate, cinnamon sugar, apples, sweet cheese, Nutella, mohn, or raisins, which is then braided either as ...
The traditional Romanian and Moldovan colac is a braided bread, typically made for special occasions or holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, weddings, and funerals. [29] It is a traditional custom of Romanian rural society, on Christmas Eve, to gather in groups, to go in different houses and to sing colinde , traditional Christmas carols .
Pain petri is a braided bread of Moroccan Jewish origin, that is traditionally baked for Shabbat, [1] the Jewish sabbath, as well as Rosh Hashanah and other Holidays, [2] and is popular among the Moroccan Jewish community of Morocco, France, and Israel. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The early versions of this bread were unbraided and made with a simple dough of wheat, eggs, fat and honey. In later years more complicated braided loaves became customary. In 1840, Der Österreichische Zuschauer described a custom among the Viennese to exchange the braided loaves on All Saint's Day. In 1929, the mastery of different types of ...