Uromas Hefezopf

Very nice, though not quite as nice as the Brioche we made these past two weekends - or maybe we're just getting spoiled already?

The dough was really sticky, and judging by the weight of the dough when I started braiding, I probably added snother 200 g or so of flour during kneading. With one full recipe, I made a three braid loaf with raisins and four single-braid loaves without raisins. I used 75 g pre-soaked raisins (for half a recipe, I divided the dough by weight), and it definitely could have had more; I think maybe 110 g of raisins. My husband even suggests 150 g raisins, and I'm pretty sure my toddler agrees with him, even though - or maybe because - then you'd have raisins with bread instead of bread with raisins.

Unfortunately, though, we used too high temperatures for baking. My dear husband let me sleep in (bless him!), and because I hadn't printed the recipe for him and he has ample experience with sour dough bread and very little with challahs and the like, he coated the bread with egg instead of milk and preheated the oven to 250 C.