To figure out how much dough to make when scaling a bread recipe, you must figure out the conversion factor by dividing your desired total weight of dough by the recipe’s total percentage.
But let’s say a recipe makes two loaves and you want three, or if it makes four loaves and you only want one-or you’re trying to get your cottage industry gig started and plan to scale up to 15 loaves or more. If a recipe makes two loaves of bread and you only want one, it’s easy enough to halve all of the ingredients-or double them to make four loaves. That way, when future you wants to recreate that bangin’ sauce from 2021, you have an easy record to follow.īut back to bread: Another good reason to learn how to read baker’s percentages is if you want to start scaling or making adjustments to existing recipes. Want to turn your last-of-the-summer-tomatoes haul into a big batch of ragu? McWilliams says it can be helpful to write out the recipe in percentages using tomatoes as the base instead of flour. Sausage recipes are often written this way. She keeps a record of pastry and pasta recipes in percentage format, too. McWilliams finds recipes written in percentages so useful, she doesn’t just stop at bread.
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