4 Ingredient French Bread
kirbiecravings.com · 2023 · 28 slices
Against 138 French bread recipes
More salt than 89% of recipes and more yeast than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 89% of recipes: 2.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
- More yeast than 89% of recipes: 2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More water than 80% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 67%.
Ingredients (4)
- 4 cups (488 g) bread flour488 g
- 1 tbsp (10 g) instant yeast10 g
- 2 tsp (12 g) non-iodized table salt (or 1 tsp fine kosher salt)12 g
- 1 ½ cups (12 oz/355 ml) warm water (between 110°F-120°F (43°C-49°C))≈ 356 g
flour 488 gbatter 866 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.
- Water73% · 81st percentile · median 67%
- Salt2.5% · 90th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast2% · 91st percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar0% · 36th percentile · median 0%
- Fat0% · 39th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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