Classic French Baguette
Baker Bettie · bakerbettie.com · 2018 · 2
Against 138 French bread recipes
Less salt than 87% of recipes and less yeast than 79%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 87% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
- Less yeast than 79% of recipes: 0.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, under a third as much.
- Water in the middle half of recipes: 70% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 67%.
Ingredients (6)
- 90 grams (¾ cup) all-purpose flour90 g
- 90 grams (90 milliliters) filtered water, slightly warm (about 90°F/ 32°C)90 g
- ¼ teaspoon instant or quick-rise yeast *see note below≈ 0.8 g
- 270 grams (2 ¼ cups) all-purpose flour270 g
- 163 grams (163 milliliters) filtered water, slightly warm (about 90°F/ 32°C)163 g
- 1 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt≈ 5 g
flour 360 gbatter 619 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 138 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water70% · 74th percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.4% · 10th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast0.2% · 13th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar0% · 36th percentile · median 0%
- Fat0% · 39th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 500°F / 260°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 25 to 40 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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