Improve the Basic Sandwich Loaf by Using a Preferment - ChainBaker
ChainBaker · chainbaker.com · 2021
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
Less yeast than 93% of recipes and more sugar than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less yeast than 93% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 89% of recipes: 8.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.2%, about twice as much.
- More fat than 86% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 8%.
- Salt above the middle half: 2.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%, more than 74% of recipes use.
Ingredients (10)
- 150g (5.3oz) strong white bread flour150 g
- 100g (3.5oz) water at room temperature if your kitchen is around 20 – 23C (68-73F) *100 g
- 2g (0.07oz) salt2 g
- 300g (10.6oz) strong white bread flour300 g
- 8g (0.28oz) salt8 g
- 40g (1.4oz) sugar40 g
- 40g (1.4oz) corn starch40 g
- 60g (2.1oz) soft butter60 g
- 6g (0.21oz) instant dry yeast or 7.2g (0.25oz) active dry yeast or 18g (0.63oz) fresh yeast6 g
- 180g (6.35oz) cold water *180 g
flour 450 gbatter 886 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.
- Liquid62% · 43rd percentile · median 64%
- Fat13% · 88th percentile · median 8%
- Sugar8.9% · 90th percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt2.2% · 78th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast0.4% · 5th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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