Homemade Challah Bread with a 6 Stranded Braid
thestayathomechef.com · 2016 · 2 loaves
Against 72 challah recipes
Less egg than 94% of recipes and less oil than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 94% of recipes: 14% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%.
- Less oil than 93% of recipes: 5.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%, about half as much.
- More water than 93% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less yeast than 83% of recipes: 0.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 1/2 cups warm water≈ 593 g
- 1 tablespoon instant dry yeast≈ 9 g
- 1/2 cup honey≈ 170 g
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil≈ 54 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 tablespoon salt≈ 18 g
- 8-9 cups all-purpose flour≈ 1063 g
- 1 egg + 1 tablespoon water (egg wash)≈ 50 g
flour 1063 gbatter 2057 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.
- Egg14% · 5th percentile · median 25%
- Oil5.1% · 6th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener16% · 67th percentile · median 13%
- Water56% · 94th percentile · median 40%
- Salt1.7% · 37th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast0.9% · 13th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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