Faye wrote:

>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.
>
>
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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