Bavarian Pretzel Bread With Mustard Butter
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) can pillsbury refrigerated French bread dough (or homemade)
- 3⁄4 cup baking soda
- 2 tablespoons coarse salt (kosher or pretzel salt)
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons spicy prepared mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 egg yolk
directions
- Cut dough in half and roll onto two smooth logs. Or form your own dough into logs about the size of a hoagie roll.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Put 10 cups of water into a large pan. Add baking soda and heat to barely boiling making sure that the baking soda is dissolved.
- Lower one loaf at a time into the water. Let simmer for 30 seconds, then turn the bread over to let it simmer for 30 seconds on the other side.
- Remove bread to a greased cookie sheet and repeat with the remaining dough.
- Mix together egg yolk and 1 tablespoon water. Brush loaves evenly with a pastry brush. Sprinkle tops with salt.
- Bake until loaves are a deep brown and sound hollow when thumped.
- Remove breads to a wire rack to cool.
- Mix together the butter, mustard and honey. Serve with the bread.
- You can also make homemade mall style soft pretzels the same way. Just use refrigerated bread stick dough, roll into ropes and shape into pretzel shapes.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
BETHANY T.
Flint, Michigan