I love soft pretzels. I remember making them for the first time in 7th grade Home Ec class. Soooo good! It wasn’t until high school that I had them again. Working the concession stands at home games really worked in my favor. I’d leave with a pretzel (or two, three..) loaded in a conqueso “soup”. There is no other way to eat pretzels then in a cheesy soup. Yum. For some reason I was thinking about soft pretzels the other day and remembered somebody food porning them and a Recipe on the ppk.
Soft Pretzels (Makes 10 ginormous pretzels)
2 1/2 cups warm water + extra
4 1/2 tsp yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
8 cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
For boiling:
6 cups water + 2 tbsp baking soda
First combine your sugar, water and yeast and set aside until slightly foamy. After five to ten minutes, add flour and salt. When Keith was kneading this, the dough was too dry. You will need the extra water to make into a nice, satiny dough (probably 1/4 or less).
After your dough is kneaded enough, you can be cool like us, and put it in a bowl and set it under your heating blanket to double in size, about 50 minutes. Or, you can be less cool, and use a different method.
When the fifty minutes is up, add the water and baking soda to a pot and get it boiling. Preheat ovcen to 475 F. Roll a handful of dough out and make 10 (more or less depending on how you like them). Boil them until they rise to the surface of the water.
Shake any excess water off and lay them on a tray lined with baking paper.
There are so many option to top the pretzels: salt, earth balance and nooch, earth balance with cinnamon and sugar… Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown.
I also made the conqueso from this blog. Word to the wise: make sure you drain the chile and tomato can. I didn’t. Still turned out good, but probably would have been thicker and more delish without the extra moisture.
Georgia said,
October 12, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Oh wow those pretzels look awesome – I am going to have to make me some of those!!
I am not using wordpress personally but in blogger there is a little button at the top when creating a post.
Just did a little search for you – under quicktags at the top of the typing box there should be a tag “link”. See if clicking on that helps??
Sorry I am not much help.
Cheers
Bethany said,
October 12, 2008 at 9:29 pm
They look so good. I’m a total mustard on my pretzels type.
mihl said,
October 13, 2008 at 2:44 am
I love soft pretzels too and yours look extraordinarily delicious!
Jeni Treehugger said,
October 13, 2008 at 3:22 am
WOW! I’m seriously impressed – they look gooood.
As for linking to another site – in your blog editor there should be a little symbol at the top near your font,size,colour options – its a picture of a chain link. Highlight the word you want to link and click on the chain link icon. This opens a new window where you paste the address of the site you want to link to into.
Easy Peasy.
Can I have a pretzel now please.
eemsreeses said,
October 13, 2008 at 4:05 pm
thanks for the help everyone!! I now know how to link! yay
Kelly said,
October 13, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Mmmm. I also made soft pretzels for VeganMoFo, although I decided to veganize Alton Brown’s recipe from The Food Network. Quite tasty. I made another batch today as pretzel rolls to use for sandwiches this week. Mmmm. What I love about them is everyone thinks they are quite impressive even though in actuality the are simple to make.
KarynMC said,
October 15, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I adore soft pretzels! Seriously, I’ll take one over a cupcake. I might just have to try these …
melisser said,
October 16, 2008 at 3:55 am
Ooh, they look fabulous! My husband would be stoked if I made these.
home loan said,
January 30, 2009 at 6:46 am
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