Homemade White Bread
africanbites.com · 2025 · 20
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
More sugar than 92% of recipes and more liquid than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 92% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.2%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More liquid than 76% of recipes: 72% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- Less yeast than 76% of recipes: 0.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (7)
- ½ cup (118ml) warm water≈ 119 g
- 2¼ teaspoons (7g) active dry yeast ((1 packet))7 g
- 1¾ cups (420ml) milk≈ 427 g
- ¼ cup (85g) honey85 g
- ¼ cup (57g) melted butter57 g
- 3 teaspoons (13-15g) salt15 g
- 5½-6 cups (700-762g) bread flour762 g
flour 762 gbatter 1472 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 150 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid72% · 77th percentile · median 64%
- Fat7.5% · 44th percentile · median 8%
- Sugar11% · 93rd percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt2% · 62nd percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast0.9% · 22nd percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 375°F
- Time
- 30 to 40 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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