Baker's Math Formula System - Why Isn't the Flour Mass in Corn Bread Formula 100%?
I decided to try to e-mail my question to the author, Peter Reinhart.  As it turns out, there is a typo in the book!


  "Together, the flour and cornmeal should equal 100%. It's the flour %
  that's listed wrong, not the cornmeal, because the total is 14 oz and
  the flour is listed as 8 oz. If you divide 8 by 14 you get 57.1%,
  which means the cornmeal is correctly listed at 42.9%  So change the
  flour percent -- that's a typo I can see can easily happen since 1 and
  7 are kind of similar looking and easily overlooked."