Aunt Annie's Pretzels

Submitted by Danny Beason

"Recipe Quest, simalar to mall pretzels"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 1-2 Pretzels
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups warm water
• 1 1⁄8 teaspoons active dry yeast (1 1/2 pkg)
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 1⁄8 teaspoons salt
• 1 cup bread flour
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups warm water
• 2 tablespoons baking soda
• to taste coarse salt
• 2 -4 tablespoons butter (melted)

directions

1. Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
2. Add sugar, salt, and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
3. Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
4. While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbs.
5. baking soda.
6. Be certain to stir often.
7. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
8. Dip pretzel into soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
9. Allow pretzel to rise again.
10. Bake in a 450 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until golden.
11. Brush with melted butter and enjoy!
12. Toppings: After you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
13. Or for Auntie Anne's famous cinnamon sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another bowl, make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
14. dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously.
15. then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.

Reviews

[CurlyCass]

These have great flavor Mine seemed a bit thick so I guess it's a work in progress