I Tried Making Homemade Uncrustables | Claire Recreates

Summary by Krater

Claire Saffitz attempts to recreate Smucker's Uncrustables peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from scratch, making homemade white sandwich bread and grape jelly and assembling them into circular crustless sandwiches.

From the video

Answers: How do you make homemade Smucker's Uncrustables?

• homemade uncrustables
• sandwich bread recipe
• grape jelly making
• tangzhong dough technique
• pectin stock from apples

Ingredients

• 50 g enriched unbleached flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• sugar
• oil
• salt
• instant yeast
• bread flour
• peanuts
• honey
• green apples
• grape juice
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

What it concludes

• The bread needs to be unbeatably soft with high elasticity so it does not break under cutting pressure.
• Making the peanut butter in a food processor followed by a high-powered blender produces a very smooth texture.
• Using green apples cooked in grape juice creates a natural pectin-rich stock for the homemade grape jelly.
• The spiral shaping method for the bread loaf is unhelpful because it encourages the bread to cleave in circular layers when stamped.
• Claire's homemade Uncrustables successfully matched the soft texture, flavor, and proportions of the original product.