[Sca-cooks] Buying flour for bread

[david friedman]

Vitha wrote:

>I am considering making the bread for my first feast in Atlantia.  Since I
>want to by my ingredients in bulk, would the best way of estimating the amount
>of flour I need be to weigh my 1 loaf recipe and then multiply the weight?
>
>I would like to avoid having 25 lbs of extra flour kicking around my house...

My standard batch of bread produces (brief pause to haul some loaves
out of the freezer and weigh them) about 7 pounds of bread and
requires almost a 5-pound bag of flour. And, if this helps, I figure
a 5-pound bag of flour to be about 18 cups unsifted.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook