Grammy's Kitchen · Soft Pretzels · Authentic German Soft Pretzel (Laugenbrezeln
One of 83 soft pretzels recipes we measured
It ranks #3 of 83 for crust crispness among the soft pretzels recipes we compared. 110 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.2★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 83.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 244% | 173% |
| fat | 7% | 6% |
| salt | 2% | 1% |
| yeast | 2% | 14% |
| total sugar | 2% | 3% |
| flour strength | 2.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 9 g | 1 tablespoon yeast |
| 59 g | 1/4 cup warm water |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons sugar |
| 510 g | 4 1/4 cups bread flour |
| 12 g | 2 teaspoons salt |
| 237 g | 1 cup warm water |
| 36 g | 2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter (room temperature) |
| 946 g | 1 quart water |
| 28 g | 1 ounce food-grade lye |
| Coarse salt |
Method: 19 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I am German, a trainer baker (in Germany, and own a bakery in the US.There is a little to much upside down with this recipe.Please easy on the sugar. 0.5% in all over mass is plenty.Salt between 1and 2%Lye, between 3 and 4%Safety, respect lye. It is a caustic ” — a cook
“Great recipe , used lard instead of butter,works great. chemical form of sodium hydroxide Na OH Na is salt O is oxygen H is hydrogen all ok to dump down the drain with lots of water. It will not hurt your drain, Draino is basically NaOH and it is used to pour ” — a cook