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Sablés shortbread Tour Eiffel décorés pour le 14 juillet

Original in French

My Culinary Curriculum · chefsimon.com · 2015 · 5 personnes

Against 433 shortbread recipes

More sugar than 99% of recipes and less butter than 87%.

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How it compares

Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • More sugar than 99% of recipes: 100% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about 2.5 times as much.
  • Less butter than 87% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
  • No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Butter: 64%, 13th percentileSugar: 100%, 100th percentileStarch: 0%, 42nd percentileSalt: 0%, 18th percentileButterSugarStarchSalt
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (8)

  • 250 g de beurre ramolli (doux)250 g
  • 140 g de sucre en poudre140 g
  • 390 g de farine fluide390 g
  • 1/2 cuillère à café de vanille liquide ou le zeste d'un citron suivant vos goûts≈ 2.1 g
  • 250 g de sucre glace250 g
  • 1 blanc d’œuf≈ 33 g
  • 2 cuillères à café de jus de citron≈ 10 g
  • Du colorant en gel de préférence rouge et bleu roin/a

flour 390 gbatter 1075 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 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

  • Butter64% · 13th percentile
  • Sugar100% · 100th percentile
  • Starch0% · 42nd percentile
  • Salt0% · 18th percentile

Oven

Temperature
not stated
median 350°F
Time
10 minutes
median 18 minutes

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