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Ingredients
- 3 packages yeast
- 3 1/2 cups warm water
- 1 1/2 cups honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 13 cups flour
- 6 eggs slightly beaten
- 1 cup oil I used regular olive oil
Method
- Preheat oven to 375 degree F.
- Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add honey, salt and slowly mix in half the flour. In another bowl add oil than add one egg at a time and beat well. Slowly stir in oil and egg mixture. Slowly add the rest of the flour.
- When the dough begins to pull away from the bowl remove it to kneed on a floured for approximately 10 minutes. Lightly oil your bowl and cover to rise for at least 1 hour somewhere warm.
- Repeat the kneading process for another 10 minutes, cover and let rise until dough has doubled in a lightly oiled bowl. Repeat this process for at least another turn.
- Divide the dough. Now according to my grandmother's instructions it should make two loaves but I found it made 3 extremely large loaves. So large in fact that I could easily have divided the dough into six loaves. I can do the six string braid but its too hard a process to explain without visual aids so I suggest you divide your loaves into either 3 or 6 portions. Take one portion and divide into three. Roll the out each piece so you have three strings of equal length, start in the middle braid together, tuck in the ends under and repeat the process from the other side.
- Now brush an eye wash (1 egg beaten with a 1/4 cup of water) over the top of the braided dough. Place on a flat cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes and then pull out bread and quickly brush with egg wash again. Bake for approximately for another 15 minutes or until the bread rings hollow when you knock on it.
