How to Bake a Braided Bread Recipe

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make a braided wreath of bread. Ok, so it's been about forty five minutes to an hour, so we'll pull it back, and we'll see that we've proofed up rather nicely. A couple parts here you want to make sure that, you know, where you pinched it, that it stayed pinched together. It did, so we're going to take our sole remaining egg, and we're going to crack it into that. I'm just going to take my brush here, and break it up. We're just going to brush the outside of this with whole egg. What this is going to do is it's going to make the outside nice and shiny, and give it some extra color before you throw it into the oven. You want to make sure your oven's on at 350 degrees. That's pretty important I guess, because we're not going to bake anything unless the oven's on. We're just going to take our egg here, and you want to make sure you take the time to really brush every single part. Don't be sloppy; there's not rush. The good thing about the eggs is if you make sure you brush it on the seams, it will make sure your bread sticks together, and doesn't start isolating itself at the seams where it starts to almost pull apart. The idea is with the finished product, because you want a bread that is able to be pulled apart, but you don't want it to cook that way. You don't want it to cook where pieces will start to cook away from each other. That would be bad. You get all sorts of weird issues if that starts to happen. That is good, so now we're going to take this and we're going to toss it in our oven. At this point, if you want to sprinkle any sort of seeds or anything on the outside, this is the time to do it. We're going to get ready to put this in the oven. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to take a little bit of salt, and salt the outside of it. This is all optional stuff here, and because I like black pepper a lot, I'm going to pepper the outside of it, too. If you have any seeds or anything, this is a good time for that, as well. So Into the oven now for about...So into the oven now for about thirty minutes at 350 degrees, and we will come back when it's all ready, and show you what the end result looks like."