Jeffrey's Challah
Jeffrey Hamelman · kingarthurbaking.com · 32 / 2 large or 3 medium loaves
Against 72 challah recipes
Less oil than 83% of recipes and more yeast than 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less oil than 83% of recipes: 7.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%.
- More yeast than 75% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
- Less water than 75% of recipes: 33% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
Ingredients (11)
- 3 large egg yolks≈ 54 g
- 3 large eggs≈ 150 g
- 1/3 cup (66g) vegetable oil66 g
- 1 1/3 cups (302g) water, cold302 g
- 7 3/4 cups (930g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour930 g
- 1/2 cup (99g) granulated sugar99 g
- 1 tablespoon (18g) table salt18 g
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 1/2 teaspoons (17g) instant yeast17 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 teaspoon water≈ 4.9 g
- poppy seeds or sesame seeds, optionaln/a
flour 930 gbatter 1691 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.
- Egg27% · 63rd percentile · median 25%
- Oil7.1% · 16th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener11% · 37th percentile · median 13%
- Water33% · 24th percentile · median 40%
- Salt1.9% · 54th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.8% · 79th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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