French Bread
preppykitchen.com · 2021 · 2 loaves
Against 138 French bread recipes
More sugar than 97% of recipes and less salt than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 3.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- Less salt than 87% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
- More water than 77% of recipes: 72% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 67%.
- More fat than 81% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
Ingredients (6)
- 2 cups warm water ((about 110°F) (480ml))≈ 474 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast≈ 9 g
- 5½ cups all-purpose flour or bread flour ((660g))660 g
- 1½ teaspoons sea salt≈ 9 g
- 1 tablespoon olive oil≈ 14 g
flour 660 gbatter 1191 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.
- Water72% · 78th percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.4% · 10th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast1.4% · 76th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar3.8% · 98th percentile · median 0%
- Fat2.1% · 82nd percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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