cooking_ratios.md

Cooking Ratios

Format - X parts : Y parts : Z parts

All parts are written in the order they should be added, and are defined by their weight, e.g. 2 egg means 2 part egg in the ratio, not two eggs.

Doughs

Recipe Ratio
Bread 5 flour : 3 water (plus yeast and salt)
Pasta Dough 3 flour : 2 egg
Pie Dough 3 flour : 2 fat : 1 water
Biscuit 3 flour : 1 fat : 2 liquid
Cookie Dough 1 sugar : 2 fat : 3 flour
Pâte à Choux 2 water : 1 butter : 1 flour : 2 egg

Batters

Recipe Ratio
Pound Cake 1 butter : 1 sugar : 1 egg : 1 flour
Sponge Cake 1 egg : 1 sugar : 1 flour : 1 butter
Angel Food Cake 3 egg white : 3 sugar : 1 flour
Quick Bread 2 flour : 2 liquid : 1 egg : 1 butter
Muffin 2 flour : 2 liquid : 1 egg : 1 butter
Fritter 2 flour : 2 liquid : 1 egg
Pancake 2 flour : 2 liquid : 1 egg : ½ butter
Popover 2 liquid : 1 egg : 1 flour
Crepe 1 liquid : 1 egg : ½ flour

Stocks and Sauces

Recipe Ratio
Stock 3 water : 2 bones
Consommé 12 stock : 3 meat : 1 mirepoix : 1 egg white
Roux 3 flour : 2 fat
Thickening Ratio 10 liquid : 1 roux
Beurre Manié 1 flour : 1 butter (by volume)
Slurry 1 cornstarch : 1 water (by volume)
Thickening Rule 1 tablespoon starch will thicken 1 cup liquid

Farçir

Recipe Ratio
Sausage 3 meat : 1 fat
Sausage Seasoning 60 meat/fat : 1 salt
Mousseline 8 meat : 4 cream : 1 egg
Brine 20 water : 1 salt

Fat-Based Sauces

Recipe Ratio
Mayonnaise 20 oil : 1 liquid (plus yolk)
Vinaigrette 3 oil : 1 vinegar
Hollandaise 5 butter : 1 yolk : 1 liquid

Custards

Recipe Ratio
Free-Standing Custard 2 liquid : 1 egg
Crème Anglaise 4 milk/cream : 1 yolk : 1 sugar
Chocolate Sauce 1 chocolate : 1 cream
Caramel Sauce 1 sugar : 1 cream