John Myers
Pretzels – Self-made
The perfect pretzels – self-made recipe with a picture and simple step-by-step instructions.
- 500 g Flour
- 1 cube Yeast
- 250 ml Water
- 0,5 tsp Salt
- 3 tsp Sugar
- 0,5 packet Kaisernatron
- 600 ml Water
- 40 g Butter
- First, heat the 250 ml water lukewarm. Mix 100 ml of lukewarm water with salt and sugar. Crumble in the yeast and mix until it has dissolved. Set aside for a moment.
- In the meantime, weigh out 500 g of flour and place in a bowl. Add the softened butter. Add the dissolved yeast mixture and the rest of the lukewarm water to the flour and knead the mixture into a dough. Then shape the dough into a ball and cover the bowl with cling film. Let it rise for 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, take the dough out of the bowl and divide it into 10 equal pieces. Shape these (each weighing approx. 80-90 g) into balls and leave to rise for another 20 minutes under cling film.
- Boil 4,600 ml of water and add the baking soda – be careful, it foams slightly (it works even better with the right caustic soda solution from the pharmacy, but this should be a bit dangerous and is not available everywhere, I think you get the typical pretzel taste also like that;)). Then take the pot off the hob (it shouldn’t boil anymore).
- Shape the dough balls into pretzels. Immerse them in the lye bath for 30 seconds each. Then drain and place on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with coarse salt immediately (I also used poppy seeds). Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 °. They taste best when they are lukewarm with butter. Good Appetite!
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