Soft Pretzels

  • Yield:10 Pretzels
  • Time:
    53 mins show details

One time, Jackie and I found an online recipe for copy-cat Auntie Anne's soft pretzel, and made it using a mysterious flour in my mom's cabinet when we ran out of normal flour. They were fantastic, mythically amazing pretzels. Everyone loved them.

We can't really find the recipe again. Maybe this is it?

Ingredients

  • 1.1 teaspoons
    dry yeast
  • 1½ cups
    warm water
  • 2 tablespoons
    brown sugar
  • 1.1 teaspoons
    salt
  • 1 cup
    bread flour
  • 3 cups
    all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups
    warm water
  • 2 tablespoons
    baking soda
  • 4 tablespoons
    melted butter optional
  • 1 tablespoon
    kosher salt optional
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Preparation

  1. 5 mins

    Sprinkle yeast into warm water. Stir, then let sit for 5 minutes.

  2. 1 min

    Add brown sugar, salt, and stir to dissolve. Add flour, and knead untill smooth and elastic.

  3. Let rise for 30 minutes.

  4. 2 mins

    Prepare a baking soda bath with baking soda and warm water.

  5. 40 mins

    Shape into pretzels, dip into water bath, and bake at 450 for 10 minutes.

  6. 5 mins

    Brush with melted butter and/or sprinkle with salt

Notes

If you don’t have bread flour they’re fine if you use 4 cups of all-purpose flour (instead of the 3 cups all-purpose and 1 cup bread flour the recipe calls for.)

And if you ignore the baking soda water bath step they're just as delicious. The baking soda bath just makes them shinier and prettier.

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