Homemade French Bread
spendwithpennies.com · 2019 · 14 slices
Against 138 French bread recipes
Less salt than 92% of recipes and more sugar than 96%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 138 French bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 92% of recipes: 1.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
- More sugar than 96% of recipes: 3.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More yeast than 86% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (6)
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 cup warm water (110° to 115°)≈ 237 g
- 1 package active dry yeast (2 ¼ teaspoons)≈ 7 g
- ¾ teaspoon salt≈ 4.5 g
- 2 ¾ to 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 359 g
- 1 egg white≈ 33 g
flour 359 gbatter 653 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.
- Water66% · 46th percentile · median 67%
- Salt1.3% · 6th percentile · median 2%
- Yeast1.9% · 88th percentile · median 0.8%
- Sugar3.5% · 97th percentile · median 0%
- Fat0% · 39th percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 450°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 22 minutes
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