Salt sticks

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 350 g flour
• 140 g butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup sour cream (just under 200 ml)
• 1 packet of dry yeast
• 4 tbsp milk
• ½ tsp sugar
• 2 egg yolks for brushing
• Salt
• Caraway seeds
• poppy
• sesame
• Flour for the work surface

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 20 minutes

We traditionally have salt sticks on New Year’s Eve

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (400 degrees Fahrenheit). Knead the flour, butter, salt, sour cream, yeast, milk, and sugar into a dough and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, wrapped in plastic wrap. Then halve the dough, roll it out thinly on a floured surface, brush with egg yolk, sprinkle with salt, caraway, poppy seeds, or sesame seeds, and use a pastry wheel to cut out sticks no more than 15 cm long and 0.5 cm thick. Carefully place these on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake on the middle rack of the oven until golden brown. This takes about 8 minutes. The pretzel sticks will keep for a long time in a tin—if they survive.