Choreg (Armenian Easter Bread)

Armenian Easter Bread

Ingredients

Melt butter. Add milk, sugar, yeast, eggs. Then add dry ingredients til dough comes off hands easily. Knead well.

Let rise til double in size in a warm spot in your kitchen, covered and wrapped in towels.

Braid and place on cookie sheets lined with parchment, and let rise again for another hour, covered lightly with plastic.

Bake at 300 degrees on bottom rack til puffy, then on middle rack till lightly browned.

Before baking, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle generously with sesame seeds.

Mahleb ground, can be purchased at any middle eastern store.
This is easily halved, and also easily frozen.