Zopf

Swiss Egg Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Zopf is the traditional egg bread of Switzerland. Its name comes from Züpfe, “to braid” in Swiss German. Every home baker in Switzerland has her own version, as it is a much beloved bread. When baked in an oven, this bread is braided with one end thicker than the other, like when you braid hair. This version is from Bern and it is baked in the machine.