Eva from Sweet Sins hosts the 6th round of bread baking day. Her challenging theme: shaped breads. I am not very talented in shaping “pretty” breads like Petra aka Cascabel or Breadchick 16.02.2025 **. And my three gentlemen are very picky with the size and the appearance of their bread slices. But I take up the challenge and participate with a 4 strand plait, instead of 3. It was easier than I thought, but I have to work on the technique to get a more even shape.
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| -========= | REZKONV-Recipe – RezkonvSuite v1.4  |
| Title: | 4-strand Poppy Seed Plait |
| Categories: | Baking, Bread, Yeast |
| Yield: | 1 Recipe |
Ingredients
| 500 | grams | Wheat flour Type 550 | |
| 1 | teasp. | Salt | |
| 300 | ml | Milk | |
| 40 | grams | Butter | |
| 1 | pack | Dried yeast | |
| 1 | teasp. | Sugar | |
| 2 | tablesp. | Poppy seed, white | |
| H | TOPPING | ||
| Poppy seeds, white | |||
| 1 | Egg yolk, beaten | ||
Source
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Jutta Kürtz Das Brotbackbuch* Verlag Wolfgang Hölker 1975 ISBN 978-3980005838 |
| Edited *RK* 01/15/2008 by | |
| Ulrike Westphal |
Directions
Prepare a soft dough from all ingredients, let rise for 1 hour.
Turn the risen dough on to a floured board, punch to deflate the air bubbles and knead gently for 1-2 minutes. Divide the dough into 4equal pieces and roll each one into a sausage shape.
Plait the 4 pieces over each other, and turn the ends under.
Place the plait on a the prepared baking sheet and leave to prove in a warm place until doubled in volume.
Brush with the beaten egg, sprinkle with poppy seeds and bake in a preheated oven, 200°C for 40 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
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Der Zopf sieht toll aus. Wo bleibt man mit den Enden ab? Werden dir unter geschoben?
REPLY:
Ja, einfach darunterfriemeln, wie man so schön sagt.
I don’t know but that bread looks pretty well shaped to me! Great job on the braid.
I think your shaping skills are pretty good! To get three strands of dough evenly plaited was hard enough for me..;-) Thanks for participating!
Brava!
A four stranded braid! How impressive is that?
The bread looks delicious as well.
-Elizabeth
Great!
Beautiful braid. I love braiding dough (especially for challah). I often find that the trickiest part is getting a braid that is plump in the middle and tapered on the edges. Your challah is gorgeous.
Four strands! Well done, I am very impressed. I have not heard of this before, so I will have to try it myself now.