Neujahrsbrezel (German New Year’s Pretzel)
tarasmulticulturaltable.com · 2023 · 1 large pretzel
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More butter than 98% of recipes and less water than 95%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 98% of recipes: 17% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%, about 2.5 times as much.
- Less water than 95% of recipes: 49% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- More sugar than 98% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.4%, about 5.5 times as much.
- Less salt than 94% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%, about half as much.
Ingredients (11)
- 2 1/4 teaspoons (7 grams) active dry yeast7 g
- 1 cup (240 milliliters) lukewarm milk (105-115˚F, 40-46˚C)≈ 244 g
- 4 cups (500 grams) all purpose flour500 g
- 1/3 cup (67 grams) granulated sugar67 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- Zest from 1 lemonn/a
- 6 tablespoons (85 grams) unsalted butter (softened at room temperature)85 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 large egg yolk≈ 18 g
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) milk≈ 15 g
- pearl sugar (Hagelzucker, optional)n/a
flour 500 gbatter 956 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.
- Water49% · 3rd percentile · median 63%
- Butter17% · 99th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar13% · 99th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt0.6% · 4th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.4% · 59th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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