Holly’s Challah Bread Recipe
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2014 · 1 loaf
Against 72 challah recipes
More oil than 94% of recipes and less egg than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More oil than 94% of recipes: 22% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%, about twice as much.
- Less egg than 76% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%.
Ingredients (9)
- 4 to 5 cups (510 g to 620 g) all-purpose or bread flour510 g
- 1 package or 2¼ teaspoons (8 g) instant yeast8 g
- 1 cup (236 g) lukewarm water (made by mixing 1/4 cup boiling water and ¾ cup cold water)236 g
- 1 tablespoon (10 g) kosher salt10 g
- ¼ cup (84 g) honey84 g
- ½ cup (112 g) safflower oil or other neutral oil (canola, grapeseed, etc.)112 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water≈ 50 g
- poppy seeds, optionaln/a
flour 510 gbatter 1060 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 72 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Egg20% · 23rd percentile · median 25%
- Oil22% · 95th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener17% · 69th percentile · median 13%
- Water46% · 67th percentile · median 40%
- Salt2% · 60th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.6% · 64th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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