Challah (Breadmaker Method)
Ann01 · nigella.com · Serves: a loaf
Against 72 challah recipes
More water than 97% of recipes and less oil than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More water than 97% of recipes: 62% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less oil than 90% of recipes: 5.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%, about half as much.
- More sweetener than 87% of recipes: 22% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 13%.
- More salt than 80% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.8%.
Ingredients (9)
- 6 cups strong white bread flour≈ 762 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil≈ 41 g
- ½ cup honey≈ 170 g
- 2 cups warm water≈ 474 g
- 1 tablespoon dried yeast (fast action)≈ 9 g
- 1 tablespoon salt≈ 18 g
- 1 beaten egg≈ 50 g
- sesame seedsn/a
flour 762 gbatter 1624 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% · 25th percentile · median 25%
- Oil5.4% · 9th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener22% · 88th percentile · median 13%
- Water62% · 98th percentile · median 40%
- Salt2.4% · 88th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.2% · 27th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 90 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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