The point of a roux is to thicken liquids to make gravies, soups, and mother sauces because you can’t just toss flour into a pot of turkey broth—it’ll clump up. To prevent that, melted ...
To keep our challah tender and extend its shelf-life, we borrow the water roux technique known as tangzhong that’s used to make fluffy Japanese milk bread. In this recipe from our cookbook ...