Pain au levain
Original in French
evelyne · cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr · 2025 · 6 personnes
Against 152 sourdough bread recipes
Less starter than 94% of recipes and less salt than 85%.
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How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 152 sourdough bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less starter than 94% of recipes: 5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%, under a third as much.
- Less salt than 85% of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2%.
Ingredients (4)
- 25 g de préparation de levain sec bio en poudre (au rayon bio grands magasins)25 g
- 500 g de farine T65 ou T80 bio (rayon bio grands magasins)500 g
- 8 g de sel8 g
- 33 cl d'eau tiède (330 g)≈ 331 g
flour 500 gbatter 864 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 152 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Starter5% · 5th percentile · median 25%
- Water66% · 44th percentile · median 68%
- Salt1.6% · 12th percentile · median 2%
- Fat0% · 43rd percentile · median 0%
- Sweetener0% · 41st percentile · median 0%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 450°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 30 minutes
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