Hard Pretzels - Salzstangen

Recipe for hard pretzels. With only metric measurements, because I'm European and Food.com doesn't seem to allow input in metric.

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Yields: 25-40 cookies

Ingredients

• 500  g flour
• 1  tablespoon coarse salt
• 250  ml mineral water
• 100  g butter
• 25  g  yeast
• 1  tablespoon sugar

Directions

1. Mix the ingredients into a dough and let it yeast about half an hour in varm place.
2. Bake it into any form you want.
3. Brush them with egg yolk and sprinkle with coarse salt and what ever other you want, for example cummin seeds, sesamy seeds or parmesan cheese.
4. Bake in 225 degrees Celsius (437 degrees Fahrenheit) for about 10 minutes.