New Year’s Bread wheel

Chinese New Year is a warm, very family-centered time, when the doors of the house are thrown open to welcome anyone who even might be considered kin—which in the average extended Chinese family means that the cook has to expect a horde for every meal. My restaurateur friends, the Hu’s, count their hordes in the hundreds, and in their restaurant and their home they make this special bread a feature of the holiday. The shape is symbolic of wholeness and continuity, and the red jujubes that g