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Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village now we are going to make a traditional round challah
loaf with raisins. First we would dust our board again with flour just lightly you don't
want to much and place our dough on the board and push out the air the best you can. This
is a traditional bread for Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah and so we put raisin in it
for extra sweetness for a sweet New Year. Okay just roll that dough out to about a half
inch thick. Getting a lot of air out of it and then we are going to sprinkle it with
some raisins. These are some nice golden raisins to go with the nice golden color of the loaf
it is about half cup a quarter to half of cup of raisins and we are just going to roll
that dough up. Start by tucking it in on the sides and then rolling it up like that. Do
it nice and tight and pinch up the ends, pinch the whole side and then again you want that
shape even dough this is all one strand you want to spin out the ends of the strands so
you have a fat middle and skinny ends. You can even do it between your hands like this
and this would give it a nice shape as you see when I turn it into a round loaf. Now
you take start with one of the skinny ends and you just roll it up. Don't stretch the
dough as you roll it just nicely wrap it around and then pinch together on the side and we
will place that on a baking sheet with a piece of baking paper and you get a nice shape skinny
in the middle and it gets fat and then it just kind of rolls into itself. Now we would
cover that with plastic wrap to keep it moist you don't want it to get dry and crack as
it is rising and we would set that aside for a half a hour to rise before we bake it.