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Quatre quarts au pruneaux : la meilleure recette

Original in French

Anonyme · marmiton.org · 2006 · 4 personnes

Against 462 pound cake recipes

Less sugar than 92% of recipes and more egg than 77%.

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How it compares

Against the typical cake: the median of 462 pound cake recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • Less sugar than 92% of recipes: 83% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 120%.
  • More egg than 77% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 80%.
  • No salt at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 0.5 to 1.5% of the flour weight).
  • More leavening than 84% of recipes: 3.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 2.5 times as much.
Butter: 83%, 35th percentileSugar: 83%, 8th percentileEgg: 100%, 83rd percentileDairy: 0%, 16th percentileLeavening: 3.7%, 86th percentileSalt: 0%, 12th percentileButterSugarEggDairyLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (6)

  • 125 g de sucre125 g
  • 125 g de beurre (ou margarine, mais c'est moins bon)125 g
  • 3 oeufs≈ 150 g
  • 150 g de farine150 g
  • 0.5 sachet de levure chimique6 g
  • 125 g de pruneaux dénoyautés125 g

flour 150 gbatter 681 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 462 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

  • Butter83% · 35th percentile
  • Sugar83% · 8th percentile
  • Egg100% · 83rd percentile
  • Dairy0% · 16th percentile
  • Leavening3.7% · 86th percentile
  • Salt0% · 12th percentile

Oven

Temperature
350°F / 175°C
median 350°F
Time
30 minutes
median 60 minutes

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