Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels
Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2017 · 12 pretzels
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More water than 75% of recipes and less salt than 75%.
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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 75% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- Less salt than 75% of recipes: 1.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 2.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 and 1/4 teaspoons (7g) instant or active dry yeast (1 standard packet)7 g
- 1 Tablespoon brown sugar or granulated sugar≈ 14 g
- 1 and 1/2 cups (360ml) warm water (around 100°F/38°C)≈ 356 g
- 1 Tablespoon (14g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled14 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 3 and 3/4–4 cups (469–500g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled), plus more as needed500 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- coarse salt, for toppingn/a
- 1/2 cup (120g) baking soda120 g
- 9 cups (2.13L) water≈ 2133 g
flour 500 gbatter 896 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.
- Water71% · 78th percentile · median 63%
- Butter2.8% · 25th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.8% · 63rd percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt1.2% · 19th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.4% · 59th 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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