Sandwich Bread
Sonja Overhiser · acouplecooks.com · 2026 · 14 slices
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more yeast than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 9.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.2%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More yeast than 78% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (9)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter (45 grams), melted; see Notes45 g
- ½ cup milk (118 grams)118 g
- 2 tablespoons honey (40 grams)40 g
- 2/3 cups warm water (157 grams)157 g
- 2 teaspoons instant or active dry yeast (8 grams)8 g
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (70 grams)70 g
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour (350 grams)350 g
- 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt (8 grams)8 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons rolled oats, roughly chopped, for topping≈ 10 g
flour 420 gbatter 796 g
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 150 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid66% · 61st percentile · median 64%
- Fat11% · 71st percentile · median 8%
- Sugar9.5% · 91st percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt1.9% · 52nd percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.9% · 82nd percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 35 to 37 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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