Pretzel

Summary

Ingredients

• 500g flour
• 1 packet yeast (dry yeast)
• 0.25 teaspoon ¼ sugar
• 350 ml milk, lukewarm
• Salt, fine
• 1 ½ liters water
• 2 tablespoon baking soda (household baking soda from the supermarket, mostly for spices)
• Salt, coarse for sprinkling

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Instructions

1. Mix flour with yeast and sugar, add milk and salt and knead a yeast dough. Cover and let rest for about 45 minutes until the volume has doubled. Knead the dough well a few more times on a floured surface and shape it into an approx. 20 cm long roll. Cut about 10-12 pieces from the roll and shape them into long strands again (by rolling or turning) and form pretzels from them.
2. In a saucepan, bring about 1.5 liters of water with 2 tablespoons of household soda to the boil and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Place the pretzels one after the other in the boiling lye and cook for about 20-30 seconds. Let the cook submerge again and again. Lift out with a slotted spoon and drain.
3. Place the cooked pretzels on a greased baking sheet (or baking paper) and cover with coarse salt (also tastes good with sesame, cheese, poppy seeds, etc.) and bake at 180 ° C for about 25-30 minutes. In the meantime, let the remaining pretzels boil, drain and then bake. The second tray takes a few minutes less