Previous to this, I can only recall one other time that I have eaten challah bread. It wasn't long ago, and it was immediately turned into french toast so I wasn't able to "actually" try it (not that I was complaining). However, for Easter my mother wanted to make an egg bread similar to one that her grandmother had made when she was younger. Unfortunately there is no record of that specific recipe. I made the suggestion of challah bread as lot of the descriptions seemed similar to what my mother was describing.
I have never made a proper yeast bread. For some reason it has always scared me, I'm not sure why. And though it had been some time since my mother had made bread, she relished the opportunity to get her hands dirty again. To her, kneading bread is a way to relieve stress (to me, it's a way to increase it :)). And with that in mind, I would be remiss to claim that this is my recipe in any way. I was the assistant baker on this one.
