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ewwpeas20
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 Mon, Aug 26 2024, 12:49 am
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How can I get white dough next time?
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Smile1234
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 12:52 am
What was your recipe? How many eggs? Yellow makes me think it was too many eggs
I do 6 lbs of flour and 3 eggs for reference and it’s a beautiful white.
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 12:54 am
| Smile1234 wrote: | What was your recipe? How many eggs? Yellow makes me think it was too many eggs
I do 6 lbs of flour and 3 eggs for reference and it’s a beautiful white. |
I'm afraid of saying because people are gonna call me stupid lol. But it was around 8 cups flour 2 eggs. I only make enough to make three challos.
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B'Syata D'Shmya
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 1:07 am
2 eggs to 8 cups is my mothers recipe (and her mothers before her, I admit to using one ) and never did it come out yellow. Were your yolks extra dark (apricot orange colored)? Did someone put in food dye behind your back?
Was it yellow when you shaped it? Or just turned yellow after baking?
What shade of yellow?
Did you use a different brand flour? What about the oil? was the yeast fresh?
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familyfirst
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 2:29 am
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2 eggs to eight cups flour is not a lot of eggs… my recipe calls for way more eggs and doesn’t come out yellow. Maybe not perfect white, but still a very acceptable color for bread
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 3:52 am
| B'Syata D'Shmya wrote: | 2 eggs to 8 cups is my mothers recipe (and her mothers before her, I admit to using one ) and never did it come out yellow. Were your yolks extra dark (apricot orange colored)? Did someone put in food dye behind your back?
Was it yellow when you shaped it? Or just turned yellow after baking?
What shade of yellow?
Did you use a different brand flour? What about the oil? was the yeast fresh? |
I used high gluten flour orange and white bag
Dough was pale yellow once mixed.
Then when it was out of the oven and sliced it was a darker yellow almost brown but not burnt.
Oven was only on 350.
It looked like toasted bread
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bepositive1
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 6:23 am
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usually this has nothing to do with the recipe and more to do with the flour used and length of time baked. I found that Costco's flour (gold medal) made yellow challah, whereas Hecker's does not. Also, if you overbake the challah, the inside may turn yellow. Good luck!
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:06 am
| bepositive1 wrote: | | usually this has nothing to do with the recipe and more to do with the flour used and length of time baked. I found that Costco's flour (gold medal) made yellow challah, whereas Hecker's does not. Also, if you overbake the challah, the inside may turn yellow. Good luck! |
Makes sense, thanks!
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:12 am
The recipe I used was originally meant for a big batch but I guess I got the measurements wrong. It's meant to be a sweet challah recipe.
Here goes.
6 cups hot water
4oz fresh yeast
3 cups sugar
6 lbs flour
1 cup oil
4 tbs salt
4 eggs
I don't have a mixer, so I wanted to make a smaller batch (enough for 3 loaves)
Should I do one egg next time and make the oven temperature lower?
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freilich
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:16 am
| ewwpeas20 wrote: | The recipe I used was originally meant for a big batch but I guess I got the measurements wrong. It's meant to be a sweet challah recipe.
Here goes.
6 cups hot water
4oz fresh yeast
3 cups sugar
6 lbs flour
1 cup oil
4 tbs salt
4 eggs
I don't have a mixer, so I wanted to make a smaller batch (enough for 3 loaves)
Should I do one egg next time and make the oven temperature lower? | Thats an awful lot of sugar for challah. This is more like cake. Could be the sugar is making it yellow.
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:26 am
| freilich wrote: | | Thats an awful lot of sugar for challah. This is more like cake. Could be the sugar is making it yellow. |
Yea I requested it after being at her house many many years ago for shabbos
I knew it was going to be sweet (I love sweet)
I had a slip of paper that had the smaller version of this recipe and when I would make it after my chasuna it would be nice and white and so so delicious.
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pinkpeonies
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:37 am
| ewwpeas20 wrote: | The recipe I used was originally meant for a big batch but I guess I got the measurements wrong. It's meant to be a sweet challah recipe.
Here goes.
6 cups hot water
4oz fresh yeast
3 cups sugar
6 lbs flour
1 cup oil
4 tbs salt
4 eggs
I don't have a mixer, so I wanted to make a smaller batch (enough for 3 loaves)
Should I do one egg next time and make the oven temperature lower? |
3 cups of sugar????????????
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 8:48 am
That's what she said 🤷♀️
And her challos were delicious.
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Chana Miriam S
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 11:10 am
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ewwpeas20
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Mon, Aug 26 2024, 11:16 am
Should I try cooler water?
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