February 4, 2024 - 12:49pm
Emile Henry Bread Baker recipe
I was wondering if anyone could give advice on quantities for the small Emile Henry Bread Baker. It only comes with a couple of recipes that aren’t basic sandwich loaves, which is what I’m looking for and what I thought it would do!
It’s too small for 500g loaves, and not sure if the type of bread baker that it is means you have to use different recipes altogether.
Is anyone able to help please?
TIA.
Mark
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Which one do you have? EM has several pots for baking bread.
Hi, it’s the one called Bread Baker that’s for sandwich loaves. I have the regular sized one rather than the larger one.
Thanks.
OK, this document gives the amount of flour that the various bakers can hold:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2961/4672/files/Emile_Henry_Bread_Baking_Recipe_Booklet.pdf?v=1645732481
The "Bread Loaf Baker" is listed as holding 3 - 3 1/4 cups of flour. A cup of flour is about 120 - 125 grams per cup (King Arthur's All-purpose is 120). So 360 - 375 grams of flour per loaf. That's about 12 1/2 ounces in US measure. It's better to measure by weight because cups of flour can vary all over the place.
That much flour will get you a loaf that weighs around 20 oz or 565 grams. For an airy sandwich bread, perhaps a little less. If the loaf is very enriched (with butter, eggs, etc), a little more.
The linked pamphlet has a recipe for "Basic Slicing Bread" that uses 3 cups of flour, which fits right in.
Thank you for the help.
There's a page on pinterest that may be of interest to you.
https://www.pinterest.com/tchpet1959/emilie-henry-recipes/
Thanks, I'll check it out.
It looks like the recipe in the booklet is for a loaf of bread that uses 420 grams of flour. So that's what you should probably aim for when you're going to make wheat (as opposed to rye or gf) bread.
Do you know how to use baker's percentages to scale recipes? It's pretty simple and will open up a whole world of recipes for you.
Here are 124 sandwich loaf recipes.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bread?main_results_recipe_index%5BhierarchicalMenu%5D%5Bcategory_lvl0%5D%5B0%5D=Bread&main_results_recipe_ind...
You can use most any recipe - scaled to fit, of course - as long as the loaf shape will fit the baker. So you won't be able to bake a round boule, but the same dough could be shaped to fit into the baker.
Thanks, I'll look around and scale down a sandwich loaf recipe.
I thought it was worth repeating.
Use a scale, not a measuring cup.
With such a small baker, a measuring cup is just not accurate enough.
Thanks very much for this.