Homemade French Bread Recipe
joyfoodsunshine.com · 2021 · 12 Servings
Against 138 French bread recipes
More sugar than 99% of recipes and more fat than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 99% of recipes: 5.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More fat than 98% of recipes: 7.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More yeast than 85% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 cup warm water≈ 237 g
- 1 ½ Tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 19 g
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast≈ 6 g
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil≈ 27 g
- 1 teaspoon sea salt≈ 6 g
- 2 ½ to 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 344 g
- 1 egg (beaten (optional egg wash))≈ 50 g
- 5 ice cubesn/a
flour 344 gbatter 689 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.
- Water69% · 58th percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.7% · 27th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast1.8% · 86th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar5.5% · 100th percentile · median 0%
- Fat7.9% · 99th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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