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.
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.
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
Fragrant, crispy German pretzels are pretzels that do not require expensive ingredients to make, which makes baking affordable for every housewife. Ingredients Flour – 500 g Warm water – 200 ml Pressed yeast – 20 g Butter (room temperature) – 2 tablespoon...