Homemade Pretzel Recipe
Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2023 · 10 pretzels
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
Less salt than 94% of recipes and no butter, unlike 79%.
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How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 94% of recipes: 0.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%, about half as much.
- No butter at all, where 79% of recipes use some (most of those 5.7 to 11% of the flour weight).
- Less water than 84% of recipes: 56% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast≈ 9 g
- 1 tablespoon barley malt syrup or light brown sugar≈ 14 g
- 1 1/2 cups (355 grams) warm water (about 110°F), (divided)355 g
- 5 cups (635 grams) all-purpose flour635 g
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 4.5 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons (40 grams) food grade lye,40 g
- 1 liter (1000 grams) water, room temperature≈ 1002 g
- Pretzel salt or coarse saltn/a
flour 635 gbatter 1018 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.
- Water56% · 15th percentile · median 63%
- Butter0% · 10th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.2% · 43rd percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt0.7% · 5th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.5% · 70th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 16 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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