Ingredients:
Bread
Dough
1
1/2 cup warm water
1
1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
2
tablespoons brown sugar
1
1/8 teaspoon salt
1
cup bread flour
3
cups all purpose flour
Baking
Soda Bath:
2
cups warm water
2
tablespoons baking soda
Toppings:
salt
to taste
4
tablespoons butter (melted)
for dipping toppings
cinnamon
and sugar
Parchment
Paper
Dough
Sprinkle
yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir with a fork to dissolve.
Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flours and knead dough by
hand until smooth and elastic. Set dough aside in bowl. Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
Once
rising time is over, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups
warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Stir.
Shape
Pinch
off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less
thick) and shape. Dip pretzel in baking soda water and place on a
separate plate. Allow pretzels to rise 5-7 minutes. Add parchment
paper to a baking sheet. Add pretzels to parchment paper’d baking
sheet.
Bake
Preheat
oven to 350. Put pretzels in oven after preheat is completed. Let
bake about 7 minutes then turn over. Check bottom of pretzels to make
sure they are not burning. When bottoms turn almost golden brown turn
pretzels over. Bake for another 3-5 minutes depending on how thick
you shaped the dough. To test if the pretzels are done, cut open the
biggest pretzel and check for any raw dough. It should look fluffy
inside.
Remove
from oven.
For
salt topping:
Melt
butter in the microwave and brush onto pretzels. Add salt.
Cinnamon
and sugar topping:
Melt
butter in microwave and add sugar and a little cinnamon, stir. Brush
onto pretzels.
