Challah Bread
bakingamoment.com · 2025 · 12
Against 72 challah recipes
More oil than 90% of recipes and more egg than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More oil than 90% of recipes: 19% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%.
- More egg than 83% of recipes: 31% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%.
- More sweetener than 79% of recipes: 19% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 13%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/3 cup warm water*≈ 79 g
- 2 tablespoons honey≈ 42 g
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast**≈ 3.1 g
- 1 egg ((large))≈ 50 g
- 1 egg yolk ((large))≈ 18 g
- 3 tablespoons oil ((I use vegetable oil, but any neutral-tasting oil will work))≈ 41 g
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour ((you may need as much as 2 1/4 cups))≈ 219 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- egg wash ((1 egg beaten with a few teaspoons of water))n/a
flour 219 gbatter 456 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.
- Egg31% · 84th percentile · median 25%
- Oil19% · 91st percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener19% · 80th percentile · median 13%
- Water36% · 35th percentile · median 40%
- Salt1.8% · 47th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.4% · 47th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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