The Best White Sandwich Bread
Mel · melskitchencafe.com · 2017 · 20 slices (2 loaves)
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
More sugar than 91% of recipes and more liquid than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 91% of recipes: 9.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.2%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More liquid than 82% of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
Ingredients (7)
- 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour≈ 875 g
- 2 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 15 g
- 1 1/2 tablespoons instant yeast≈ 14 g
- 1/4 cup sugar or honey≈ 85 g
- 2 3/4 cups very warm water≈ 652 g
- 1/4 cup neutral-flavored oil (like grapeseed, canola, vegetable, avocado)≈ 55 g
- Butter for top of loaves (optional)n/a
flour 875 gbatter 1695 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.
- Liquid75% · 82nd percentile · median 64%
- Fat6.2% · 33rd percentile · median 8%
- Sugar9.7% · 92nd percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt1.7% · 36th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.6% · 66th percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 30 to 32 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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