Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe
brooklynfarmgirl.com · 2015 · 8
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More water than 95% of recipes and more yeast than 98%.
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How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More water than 95% of recipes: 81% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- More yeast than 98% of recipes: 3.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, about 2.5 times as much.
- No butter at all, where 79% of recipes use some (most of those 5.7 to 11% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 1 ½ cups warm water≈ 356 g
- 2 and ¼ teaspoons instant yeast≈ 14 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 tablespoon sugar≈ 13 g
- 3 ½ cups flour≈ 438 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- salt for sprinkling on top of these yummy pretzels (coarse, pretzel salt or even regular salt if that’s all you have)n/a
flour 438 gbatter 876 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 173 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water81% · 97th percentile · median 63%
- Butter0% · 10th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.9% · 64th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt1.4% · 31st percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast3.2% · 99th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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