Easy Homemade French Bread
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2017 · 24 slices (2 loaves)
Against 138 French bread recipes
More sugar than 95% of recipes and more water than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 95% of recipes: 3.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More water than 81% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 67%.
- More fat than 86% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
Ingredients (6)
- 2 1/4 cups warm water, 110-115 degrees F≈ 533 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 tablespoon instant or active dry yeast≈ 9 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons salt (see note)≈ 14 g
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, canola oil, vegetable oil or avocado oil≈ 27 g
- 5 1/2 - 6 cups all-purpose flour or bread flour (see note)≈ 730 g
flour 730 gbatter 1339 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% · 82nd percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.8% · 36th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast1.3% · 70th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar3.4% · 96th percentile · median 0%
- Fat3.7% · 87th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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