Comments on: Baking Finnish Pulla Bread

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:31:05 +0000

Certainly there is a connection between pulla and challah - the traditional braided loaves of bread used on the Jewish Sabbath. Except for the cardemom, the ingrediants are the same, and the braiding is the same. Instead of sugar or almonds on top, we often top with poppy seeds or sesame seeds.
Of course I remember sitting in your kitchen 20 years ago smothering your mother’s bread with honey and butter. You were the only ones back then that I knew with a bread machine!

By: Anna Butler

Anna Butler — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:22:08 +0000

Mom has made bread with me a dozen times, and yet I’m still afraid to do it myself! Thanks for the step-by-step with pictures! You may have given me the courage to try it alone. (Besides, I’m taking up all of mom’s free time with babysitting, so she hasn’t made any for us in ages!)

By: Rachel Corbett

Rachel Corbett — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:58:08 +0000

Yummy, I need to try that one.

By: ph

ph — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Of course, toasting, putting peanut butter on it, or doing anything except dipping it in your hot beverage of choice (hot chocolate for us), is considered heresy.

But I do recommend it with creamy peanut butter, or lightly toasted with butter…even untoasted with butter and a thin slice of swiss cheese.