Jewish Challah with Golden Rasins for Purim

To my viewers who are Jewish or celebrate Purim it  is your lucky holiday. I am going to try and be better with holidays. No offence to anyone but I tend to forget about holidays I don't celebrate. So sorry I am just putting these up with less then a week till Purim! But I am putting them up now. Not all the dishes I put up before Purim will be for Purim. I might put in a few things not related to Purim since not everybody celebrates if. But I'm trying. As holidays go am not the most familiar with Purim foods but I
know the basics like challah, kugel, and Hamantashen.Did I spell that right? I hope. I have never been  good at spelling. Thank The Lord that blog spot has spell check, so when I make my post there is spell check! It helps a whole lot. Anyway, for all the ladies , don't y'all love braids. I find them super cute and pretty. I still French braid my hair. I love braids and having the third part a ribbon and putting flowers and butterfly clips in and making it all pretty and cute. Well most of y'all know that challah is braided. So yippy I can see braided bread. It might look and sound hard and I will be honest, the first few times I was trying to do get the bread to look like a braid I struggled with the heavy pieces. But, after like 3times I tried  I could do it in my sleep. It is just like braiding hair.  It was fun! I love to braid hair so braiding bread was fun!!!!!!!  I know that a lot of Challah has golden rasins so I added some! The original recipe called for poppy seeds but I don't eat poppy seeds because they taste bad so............ I don't really have a story or anything cause I don't have much experience with this. But anyway, I will leave you to it!!!!!!! bye!!!!!!!!!!!

Prep-3O minutes
Bake-40 minutes
Ready in-3  hours 40 minutes

Ingredients-

• 2 1/2 cups warm water  
• 1 tablespoon active dry yeast 
• 1/2 cup honey 
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil    
• 3 eggs 
• 1 tablespoon salt 
• 8 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 
• 3 tablespoon golden rasins 

Directions-
 In a large bowl, sprinkle yeast over barely warm water. Beat in honey, oil, 2 eggs, and salt. Add the flour one cup at a time, beating after each addition, graduating to kneading with hands as dough thickens. Knead until smooth and elastic and no longer sticky, adding flour as needed. Cover with a damp clean cloth and let rise for 1 1/2 hours or until dough has doubled in size
Punch down the risen dough and turn out onto floured surface and add rasins. Divide in half and knead each half for five minutes adding flour as needed to keep from getting sticky. Divide each half into thirds and roll into long snake about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Pinch the ends of the three snakes together firmly and braid from middle. Either leave as braid or form into a round braided loaf by bringing ends together, curving braid into a circle, pinch ends together. Grease two baking trays and place finished braid. Cover with towel and let rise about one hour
 Preheat oven to 375 
Beat the remaining egg and brush over each braid.
Bake at 375  for about 40 minutes. 
Slice, Serve, and Enjoy!!!!!!!!!! 
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