Braided Challah
The Big Book of Bread · kingarthurbaking.com · 16 / one large loaf
Against 72 challah recipes
More egg than 98% of recipes and more salt than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More egg than 98% of recipes: 40% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%.
- More salt than 98% of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.8%.
- Less water than 93% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Oil in the middle half of recipes: 15% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1/4 cup plus 2 1/2 tablespoons (90g) water, warm (100°F)90 g
- 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons (50g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour50 g
- 2 teaspoons (6g) instant yeast6 g
- 2 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons (325g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour, plus more for dusting325 g
- 1 3/4 teaspoons table salt≈ 11 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 large egg, separated≈ 50 g
- 3 tablespoons (64g) honey64 g
- generous 1/4 cup (56g) vegetable oil, or other neutral oil56 g
flour 375 gbatter 752 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.
- Egg40% · 99th percentile · median 25%
- Oil15% · 75th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener17% · 76th percentile · median 13%
- Water24% · 6th percentile · median 40%
- Salt2.8% · 99th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.6% · 64th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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