Challah - a method of weaving from five strands. Challah - a method of weaving from five strands Hemostatic tourniquet - an extreme measure

Ingredients:

warm water - 50 ml;

dry yeast - 11 g;

sugar (for dough) - 1 tsp;

milk - 200 ml;

egg - 1 pc;

melted butter- 50 g;

sugar (for dough) - 2 tablespoons;

flour (approximately) - 3.5 stack.;

egg yolk (for lubrication) - 1 stack.;

milk (for lubrication) - 1 tablespoon;

poppy (for sprinkling) - 1-2 tablespoons;

How to cook:

1. Warm water combine with 1 tsp. sugar and yeast. Cover with cling film or a towel and leave for 15-20 minutes. for the approach.

2. Add 2 tablespoons to warm milk. sugar, melted butter and egg, beat lightly with a fork to combine the ingredients. Then combine with a suitable yeast mixture. In a separate bowl, mix about half of the sifted flour and salt. Add the liquid portion and stir with a spoon.

3. Add the remaining flour, kneading the dough with your hands on the table when it is difficult to work with a spoon. Knead the dough well on the table and put in a greased vegetable oil bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and cover with a towel. Leave to approach in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours.

4. Roll out the matched dough into a thin layer and divide into 5 equal strips. Twist each strip according to the principle of a roll into a bundle, pinching the dough joint. Transfer the harnesses to a sheet of baking paper oiled with vegetable oil, connect in a "bundle".

5. Divide the harnesses into two parts: 2 and 3 harnesses. Place the extreme harness from the side of the 3 harnesses in the space between the parts, thus forming again parts of 2 and 3 harnesses.

6. Do this with each of the formed extreme 3 bundles, resulting in a braid of 5 bundles.

7. Transfer the finished braid with paper to a baking sheet. Cover with a towel and leave to approach in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. After approach, grease the tourniquet with a mixture of yolk and milk using a brush. Sprinkle with poppy seeds.

8. Bake the tourniquet in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

Today I will continue to show the challah weaves from five strands. I showed you how to weave a tall challah of five plaits with a "lace" on the comb a few days ago, for example challah from Galina dough .

Today I will show you three more ways to weave five plaits into a beautiful challah. These three weaves are amazingly decorative in their own right, or they can serve as a wide base for a two- and three-deck challah. Of course, you can weave any cool this way. yeast dough on cold water.

I had a recipe for a luxurious dough for today's challah from Valeria ( www3 ), a great craftswoman in baking and decorating cakes. Just fabulous skills of a person, talent!

Lera shared this recipe three months ago, when we discussedChallah Maggi Glaser ... And today we wanted sweet bread and I baked it. Delicious butter bread. Very tasty.

Lera's recipe

for two challah, one kilogram each

1 kg flour
50g fresh yeast
1 tbsp salt

200g sugar (1 stack)
100g margarine

2 eggs in dough

100g raisins in dough (optional)
Lubricating egg

We mix all the products together in a mixer or a food processor, add salt a little later. Add raisins at the end. Leave the dough to come up until it doubles in solution.

After that, knead a little more, give the desired shape (there are many variations, I made a crocodile, and a fish and a goose), leave to come up a little more. Brush with an egg.

Put the challah in an oven preheated to 210C, and after 10 minutes we reduce the temperature to 180 C. Bake for another 25 minutes.

Notes (edit)

This dough makes the most magnificent, huge challah. Weighing almost 1 kg and half a meter long!

The dough is quite soft and for this reason it is not very suitable for complex halas. weaving from soft dough breaks in the oven even after an hour and a half of proofing. Therefore, I reduced the amount of water in the dough and lengthened the fermentation and proofing times.

A dough that is too soft for wicker challah will settle into a soft flat cake when dumped on the table. Soft dough best suited for simple products (crocodile, fish, goose, as Lera says) or small sizes (buns, round or oval buns) or tin bread.

For complex weaves, the dough should be of a stronger consistency, sit on the table in a tall piece or ball

Recipe for a Tougher Challah Dough
for one challah weighing 450g

250g flour
12.5 g compressed yeast
4g salt

50 g sugar
25g margarine

1/2 egg (25g)
80-100 g water

25g raisins (optional)

Knead the dough out of 200 g flour, without salt, for 10 minutes. At the end of the batch, mix in 50 g of flour, salt and raisins.

Let it ferment until it doubles in volume. Crumple, cut into pieces and roll them into bundles. Shape the challah and let it proof. Brush the challah with an egg before baking.

Furnace in an oven preheated to 410F at 355F for 35 min.

Note. Due to the large amount of yeast, my dough doubled in volume in just 30 minutes in the soft version of the dough and in 60 minutes in the steep version. This period is not enough for the maturation of the dough and the production of organic acids in the dough. So quickly, even the dough on the dough is not fermented. Therefore, I replaced some of the water and flour in the dough with the prepared sourdough. For example, instead of 250g flour and 125g water, I took 200g flour, 75g water and 100g sourdough (50g flour and 50g water).

Fast fermentation itself is not a problem if the bread is eaten fresh immediately after baking. For longer storage of bread without speedy staling: two days better dough create in a dough way or acidify with whey or a piece of starter culture.

Three new challah weaves

# 1. Simple braid. We braid a braid of five plaits or any odd number of plaits (3,5,7,9,11) like a regular braid of three strands, grouping strands in two and three, two and three.

Starting position. 5 plaits 30cm long.

No. 2. Low-rise challah of five plaits with a cord in the center. The rhythm of weaving is like this

1. Move strand 5 over strand 4
2. Move strand 2 over 3 and 4
3. Move 2 over 1
4. Move 5 over 4 and under 3
5. Move 2 over 1.

Shown in pictures. Starting position. 5 bundles 30cm long.

2 over 3 and 4

5 over 4 and under 3

Repeat the rhythm. When we reach the end of the bundles, connect them together with a strong pinch and tuck under the bread

Weaving number 3. Low-rise challah of five plaits with a pigtail in the center. The rhythm is this (repeat this rhythm until the strands run out):

1. Move strand 1 over strand 2.
2. Bring strand 3 over strand 2
3. Move strand 5 over strand 4
4. Move strand 3 over strand 4
5. Move strand 3 under strand 3
6. Move strand 4 under strand 3.

I show the weaving rhythm in the pictures. Starting position. 5 harnesses 30m long.

Repeat this rhythm until we reach the end of the flagella. Then pinch them together and tuck them under the bun

After 1 hour 40 minutes of proofing, grease with egg, yolk or white and trim with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, almonds, coarse sugar or whatever you like.

Halo weighing 450-500g oven 25min at 400F or 35min at 350F. The longer the challah is baked, the higher the T baking and the more yolk in the grease, the darker, more glossy and crimson the crust.

I smeared the challah with protein and baked for 25 minutes at 350F for a light soft crust.

One of the most important survival skills is skill. At the very least, apply correctly hemostatic tourniquet... But even this rather simple action causes enormous difficulties for many, which led to the appearance huge amount myths on this score. And we will tell you about them now so that you do not believe in them and do not make such mistakes. And it is possible that this can save someone's life in the future.

1. Hemostatic tourniquet - last resort

If there is at least a theoretical possibility to eliminate bleeding without a tourniquet, then it is better to use it. After all, the tourniquet survives the tissues, spoils the collateral circulation, and in general, is no less dangerous than the bleeding itself.

In all fairness, the ability to press an artery against a bone in order to stop circulation in it is a hell of a difficult skill. Yes, paramedics are mastering it, but they have no alternatives. And an ordinary civilian horseradish will be able to properly squeeze a pulsating and rather stiff artery, and even hold it when everything around is covered in blood. Honestly, a tourniquet is better.

2. The imposition of a tourniquet is always equivalent to the risk of limb loss

The longer the tourniquet tightens the limb, the higher the chance that necrotic changes will become irreversible.

Because only an idiot puts on a hemostatic tourniquet for a long time. Seriously, for a reason, all courses teach to record the time of the tourniquet application, and not in memory, but directly in text. Because it is generally better not to keep the tourniquet for more than two hours - otherwise, the very same hypoxic tissue damage will begin. Therefore, when providing first aid, sometimes you have to make a choice - to wait again or to resume bleeding, but a little to nourish the tissues with anything you can. Sometimes this is justified, sometimes it is not.

Even if the tourniquet lasts more than six hours, there are still some chances. The problem here is that protein breakdown processes begin in the "separated limb". And when the circulation resumes, all this shit needs to be filtered out by the kidneys. But there is so much of it that acute renal failure happens and the person dies very well, but rather painfully. BUT. If the victim is connected to a hemodialysis machine, then there will be no blow to the kidneys. But whether the limb can somehow be restored is another matter. Some are lucky, but it's better not to risk it.

3. The belt makes an excellent hemostatic tourniquet

After all, few people carry professional first aid tools with them. And almost everyone has a hard belt. So we improvise with him.

The key word is tough. The very structure of the belt does not allow them to overtighten everything - the hard skin does not tighten, like a normal tourniquet, but presses over the entire area. However, even this is better than nothing. But still, you should prefer something else, if there is such a possibility.

4. Homemade tourniquet is no worse than medical

If you do not take the belts, then something can be made from a piece of fabric or a shirt sleeve that will stop the blood just as well as medical tourniquets.

But you know, there is some truth in this - especially the moment "is not at all worse." Because the classic medical tourniquets, I beg your pardon, how shit work. No, they are, of course, excellent for taking blood, but it is one thing to clamp a passive vein, and quite another to transfer a deep and hard artery. And little of the classic medical arsenal can handle this. In addition, the well-known and "favorite" rubber bands only work well if they are stored properly. Otherwise, the rubber shrinks, becomes stiff and stops being at least some benefit. But even such tourniquets can seriously slow down bleeding. Not to stop, then at least to slow down is already good.

5. There are tourniquets that work perfectly

Say, somewhere in the armed forces of the USA / Israel / Martian Liberation Front there are tourniquets with the help of which absolutely anyone can reliably and without any special consequences stop bleeding.

Honestly, it is only a minor surgery that stitches the walls of the artery normally to stop the blood from the artery. And the harnesses - in best case help to hold on to this moment without particularly damaging the tissues of the limb. It should be borne in mind that for different types of damage, different harnesses are needed. For example, if deep arteries are injured, not every tourniquet will be able to compress the limb in such a way as to stop the bleeding. And with superficial damage, you can even cope with the above-mentioned rubber medical tourniquet.

And yes, even the highest quality tourniquet will be useless in trembling and inept hands. To give first aid . And even if it is only remotely similar to the conditions in which you may have to work, it’s better this way than not at all.