[Sca-cooks] question about breads

[Huette von Ahrens]

I hate to tell you this, but that is also a 25% loss.  2.25 lbs is 3/4 of 3 lbs.  So there is
no variation there.  Yes, it is a different measurement pattern, but is it really an error?
I don't think so.  Most bread books I own contain recipes of varying sizes.  Wow!  You must
be really inflexable if you think that because one recipe doesn't match precisely the others that
it is an error or laziness on the part of the author.

Huette

--- rbbtslyr <rbbtslyr at comporium.net> wrote:

> Yep, but the other receipes were 3 lbs before baking, 2.25 roughly after so they didn't do their
> homework and make this one fit the rest of the book. I should have been more clear in the error.
>  It wont fit in the recommend pan, it will fit more or less in two of them but the loaves are a
> bit small.  Of course with round loaves that doesn't matter unless it wont fit on my hearth
> stones.
> 
> Has anyone tried hardwood ashes in quickbreads and such, I have a few receipes calling for them
> as a leavener, and was wondering how well they work.
> 
> Kirk 
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Terry Decker 
>   To: Cooks within the SCA 
>   Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:48 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] question about breads
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> 
>   You lose about 25 percent of the weight of the dough during baking, mostly 
>   in fluid loss.  So 4 pounds of ingredients will produce approximately a 3 
>   pound loaf.  Type of flour, age of flour, and type of liquids used tend to 
>   alter the amount of loss, but 25 percent is a good rule of thumb.
> 
>   Bear
> 
>   Interesting, the books I checked said different, but heck I have found 
>   plenty of errors in them, one receipe suppose to be a 3lb loaf would be 4 
>   lbs if I took the messures listed....not all written material is right so I 
>   practice first before cooking for parties etc.
> 
>   Kirk
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