[Sca-cooks] On Beyond Pretzel

[galefridus at optimum.net]

Several years ago, my wife did a bunch of research on the origins of challah, the braided loaf that's traditional for Shabbat. I'll ask whether she'd be willing to write something up for this group, or possibly let me send you a copy of her documentation.

-- Galefridus

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> So those twisty looping little bundles of bready goodness that 
> are pretzels got me thinking, what about other twisted bread 
> shapes? Like braided bread.
> 
> So I went searching the web looking for SCA-period art showing 
> more varied shapes of bread, but i couldn't find any braided 
> loaves. I feel certain i've seen them before, but for some 
> reason i just wasn't turning them up.
> 
> Anyone know of any SCA-period art resources that show braided loaves?
> 
> Thanks for everything!
> 
> Urtatim (that's oor-tah-TEEM)
> the persona formerly known as Anahita