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Quatre-quarts aux pommes

Original in French

murley · ptitchef.com · 2009 · 6

Against 462 pound cake recipes

More leavening than 93% 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.

  • More leavening than 93% of recipes: 4.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%, about 3 times as much.
  • 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).
  • No dairy at all, where 67% of recipes use some (most of those 45 to 75% of the flour weight).
Butter: 100%, 72nd percentileSugar: 115%, 48th percentileEgg: 100%, 83rd percentileDairy: 0%, 16th percentileLeavening: 4.6%, 94th percentileSalt: 0%, 12th percentileButterSugarEggDairyLeaveningSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (7)

  • 3 belles pommes acidulées≈ 546 g
  • 15 morceaux de sucre≈ 15 g
  • 2 gros oeufs ou 3 oeufs≈ 100 g
  • 100 g de sucre en poudre100 g
  • 100 g de farine100 g
  • 100 g de beurre frais100 g
  • 1 cuillère à café de levure chimique.≈ 4.6 g

flour 100 gbatter 966 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.

  • Butter100% · 72nd percentile
  • Sugar115% · 48th percentile
  • Egg100% · 83rd percentile
  • Dairy0% · 16th percentile
  • Leavening4.6% · 94th percentile
  • Salt0% · 12th percentile

Oven

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

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