Question

Kritika is following this recipe for bread. She realises her sister used most of sugar syrup for her breakfast. Kritika has only `1/6` cup of syrup, so she decides to make a small size of bread. How much of each ingredient shall she use?

Bread recipe

1 cup quick cooking oats

2 cups bread flour

`1/3` cup sugar syrup

1 tablespoon cooking oil

`1 1/3` cups water

3 tablespoons yeast

1 teaspoon salt.

Answer 1

After used of most of sugar syrup for her breakfast, the remaining sugar is `1/6` cup of sugar syrup. Thus, it means `1 - 1/6 = 5/6` has been used. She need `1/3` cup of sugar syrup for one piece of bread. So, new quantity of ingredient will be in proportion of `1/2`.

Now the bread recipe will be look like

`1/2` cup quick cooking oats

1 cup bread flour

`1/6` cup sugar syrup

`1/2` tablespoon cooking oil

`4/3 xx 1/2 = 2/3` cup water

`3/2` tablespoons yeast

`1/2` teaspoon salt