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Carol Alter says: Take your 6 strands and join them together at one end.
Jason Titter says: For much of my Jewish Cooking I have turned to Evelyn Rose's The New Complete International Jewish Cookbook (Carroll & Graf, New York, ISBN 0-88184-927-8) and so far, she has not lead me wrong.
Wendy Baker says: I did one once, so am no expert, but I used the instructions in George Greenstein's book "Secrets of a Jewish Baker". He made it quite simple, with illustrations of each step.
Now go to the left side of the challach and repeat in reverse - take
strand #2 and move it all the way over to the right. Take strand #1 and move it over the next two strands.
Repeat until all the strands are braided and secure at the end.
Anyway, with your six strands numbered from left to right renumbering
strands each time a step is done.
1 - Strand 6 over strand 1
2 - Strand 2 over strand 6
3 - Strand 1 over strand 3
4 - Strand 5 over strand 1
5 - Strand 6 over strand 4
Repeat steps 2 through 5 until the end is reached.
I don't do it more often, as I am either making round New Year Challahs, or making quite small ones so we don't have challah left all week.