Honey Challah — Jewish Food Society

Ingredients

• 6 ½ cups + 2 tablespoons (930g) all purpose flour
• 2 ½ teaspoons fine sea salt
• 3 teaspoons instant yeast*
• 1 ½ cups (345g) water or milk
• ½ cup + 1 ½ teaspoons (180g) honey
• 12 tablespoons (1 ½ sticks) + 1 teaspoon unsalted butter (at room temperature) or ¾ cup olive oil (180g)
• 2 large eggs (112g)
• 1 large egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 ½ tablespoons water
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 ½ - 5 tablespoons honey
• Poppy seeds
• Sesame seeds
• Fennel pollen
• Maldon sea salt