Amish Soft Pretzels
Dan Langan · foodnetwork.com · 2019 · 12 pretzels
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More sugar than 85% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 85% of recipes: 6.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.4%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Water in the middle half of recipes: 70% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- Yeast in the middle half of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
Ingredients (14)
- 2 tablespoons honey or brown sugar≈ 28 g
- One 1/4-ounce envelope instant dry yeast≈ 7 g
- 1 1/4 cups warm water≈ 296 g
- 3/4 cup bread flour≈ 95 g
- 2 tablespoons wheat germ, optional but recommended≈ 30 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt≈ 8 g
- 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting≈ 328 g
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted≈ 28 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/3 cup baking soda≈ 96 g
- 3 cups very hot water≈ 711 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- Coarse salt, for sprinklingn/a
- 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted57 g
flour 423 gbatter 827 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.
- Water70% · 74th percentile · median 63%
- Butter6.7% · 47th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar6.5% · 86th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt1.8% · 55th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.7% · 77th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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