Soft Pretzel Recipe
spendwithpennies.com · 2023 · 8 pretzels
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More salt than 87% of recipes and more butter than 81%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 87% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%.
- More butter than 81% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%.
- More water than 75% of recipes: 71% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1½ cups warm water≈ 356 g
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 13 g
- 2 teaspoons salt≈ 12 g
- 2½ teaspoons active dry yeast (1 package)≈ 8 g
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 2 ounces butter (melted)57 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 10 cups water≈ 2370 g
- ⅔ cup baking soda≈ 192 g
- 1 large egg yolk ( beaten with 1 tablespoon water)≈ 18 g
- kosher saltn/a
flour 500 gbatter 945 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%
- Butter11% · 82nd percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.5% · 55th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt2.4% · 92nd percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.6% · 73rd percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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