Toasting White Bread
theviewfromgreatisland.com · 2025 · 8
Against 150 white sandwich bread recipes
More liquid than 95% of recipes and more salt than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 150 white sandwich bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 95% of recipes: 86% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 64%.
- More salt than 82% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%.
- More yeast than 78% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast* (a standard U.S. packet (¼ oz / ~7 g))7 g
- 1/3 cup warm water (about 110F)≈ 79 g
- 1 Tbsp sugar≈ 13 g
- 3 cups all purpose flour**≈ 375 g
- 1 1/2 tsp sea salt≈ 9 g
- 1/4 tsp baking soda≈ 1.5 g
- 1 cup cultured buttermilk (at room temp (you can very briefly warm it in the microwave if necessary, check at 15 seconds.))≈ 244 g
- 2 Tbsp vegetable oil≈ 27 g
flour 375 gbatter 755 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.
- Liquid86% · 96th percentile · median 64%
- Fat7.3% · 42nd percentile · median 8%
- Sugar3.3% · 41st percentile · median 4.2%
- Salt2.4% · 86th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.9% · 82nd percentile · median 1.3%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 22 to 25 minutes
- median 33 minutes
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