Challah

Challah is a braided soft bread enriched with eggs, oil, and honey, first made in this form by Ashkenazi Jews in 15th-century Europe. The braiding was an adaptation from a local Teutonic bread. Challah started as a plain bread that, over the course of the 15th century, became more enriched. It was not sweetened until the early 19th century, when sugar became more available and more affordable all over Europe. Then, as now, challah was used to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath and other religious