Perfect White Sandwich Bread
daringgourmet.com · 2014 · 16 slices
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
More sugar than 97% of recipes and more salt than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 14% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.2%, about 3.5 times as much.
- More salt than 91% of recipes: 2.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%.
- More liquid than 80% of recipes: 74% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
Ingredients (7)
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (, plus more as needed)≈ 438 g
- 2 teaspoons salt≈ 12 g
- 1 cup lukewarm whole milk≈ 244 g
- 1/3 cup lukewarm water≈ 79 g
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (, melted)≈ 28 g
- 3 tablespoons honey≈ 63 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast≈ 7 g
flour 438 gbatter 871 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.
- Liquid74% · 81st percentile · median 64%
- Fat6.5% · 36th percentile · median 8%
- Sugar14% · 98th percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt2.7% · 93rd percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.6% · 66th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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