Cornbread challah
Bread
American cuisine
Two loaves of braided bread grace every Jewish Sabbath table. Traditionally, these are wheat loaves with lots of egg (and no dairy, because they are generally served with a dinner that contains meat). We hold them up for prayer then pass them around, each person ripping off a fragrant hunk. <br /> <br />Something impossible for our family though, as we need to be gluten (and dairy) free. And mostly because the slightest crumb of anything egg causes my daughter to break out in head to toes hives. <br /> <br />Fortunately, the only ritual requirements are that there are two loaves, braided, and that there is at least a small amount of one of the 5 grains for the Hamotzi prayer: wheat, spelt, barley, rye, or oats. The first 4 are gluten grains but the last is not. "Gluten-free oats" are not a special variety but rather oats that have been carefully sourced and tested to avoid ubiquitous wheat contamination. I add a few to this challah so we can pray over it.
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