Pretzel Bites
Charlotte Rutledge · kingarthurbaking.com · 14 / about 6 dozen pretzel bites
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
No butter, unlike 79% of recipes and more yeast than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No butter at all, where 79% of recipes use some (most of those 5.7 to 11% of the flour weight).
- More yeast than 93% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 1/2 cups (300g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour300 g
- 1 teaspoon (6g) table salt6 g
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar≈ 4.2 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons (7g) instant yeast7 g
- 7/8 to 1 cup (198g to 227g) water, warm*198 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 cup (227g) water, boiling227 g
- 2 tablespoons (28g) baking soda28 g
- coarse, kosher or pretzel salt; or coarse or [product-link]Swedish pearl sugar[/product-link], optionaln/a
- 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted85 g
- cinnamon sugar, optionaln/a
flour 300 gbatter 515 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.
- Water66% · 64th percentile · median 63%
- Butter0% · 10th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar1.4% · 27th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt2% · 70th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast2.3% · 95th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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