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This past weekend my friend who lives in NC son came home. He brought a loaf of bread from a bakery in Wilmington. My friend loved the bread so would like to have the recipe. She said it was called honey nut bread although the ingredients didn't list honey. She said it had molasses instead. Here is the list of ingredients from the bag-- Wheat flour, water, salt, yeast, oil, malt, bran, pecans and molasses. Would anyone happen to have a recipe with these ingredients or know where I might find one. Thanks for your help, Faye

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Faye
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Here's a guess. By law, food manufacturers have to list ingredients in descending order, by weight. So there is more flour than water, more water than yeast, and so on.

The suggestion below is based on bakers percentages and weight in grams. It's a starting point. It should make about 2 1 1/2 pound loaves.

Ingredient Bakers percent grams Wheat flour 100 930 Water 65 610 Salt 2 19 Yeast 1.5 14 (Instant yeast) Oil 1 14 Malt 1 14 Bran 1 14 Pecans 1 14 Molasses 1 14

It looks kinda light on pecans, so you might recheck the wrapper to make sure you reported the ingredients in the correct order. The 65% water is a common value for sandwich style breads. The 2% salt is a very common salt level. Much higher and you taste it, much lower and it doesn't help the bread.

Hope this helps, Mike

PS - for most of the 14 gram solids, I'd use about two fairly level teaspoons. Mike

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Mike Avery

Thanks Mike for this information.Probably my friend did copy the ingredients correct but I will ask her to make sure. I'm not experienced enough to translate this into cups or ounces so if you could help me out a little further I sure would appreciate it. Like how many ounces a gram is. I know this probably has been discussed here but I just joined this group. Thanks for your help, Faye

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Faye

Sadly, not really. Water is easy. It's about 240 grams per cup. I'd use 3 teaspoons of the 19 gram ingredients, 2 of the 14 gram ingredients.

However, flour is another matter altogether. In some tests run in different baking groups we found that "a cup of flour" could vary by as much as 50% from one person to another. How the flour is packed into the cup is what makes the difference. Water doesn't pack. Granulated solids do.

There are about 30 grams per ounce of weight. To ounce of volume is another matter. Check your flour sack, they should have some sort of information on the side with the nutritional information that will say something like, "One serving = 1/4 cup (30 grams)" And from there, you can do the math. (Note, those were numbers pulled out of... ahhh... the air for demonstration purposes. Check your sack.)

If your bread is too wet, add flour; if its too dry, add water.

Good luck, Mike

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Mike Avery

Thanks, you have been a big help. Think I just might be able to handle it now and come up with a good loaf of bread. Faye

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Faye

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