101Kidz : Grown Ups : Recipes : Breads
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Pretzels

Ingredients:

1 pkg yeast
3 cups bread flour
1/2 tsp sugar
1 cup warm/hot water (whatever temperature you use for yeast breads)
1 egg yolk
1 Tbsp water (any temperature)
coarse salt

Instructions:

Mix 1st four ingredients, knead, and let rise.

Separate dough into 12 equally-sized blobs. Mix egg yolk & Tbsp water in a bowl. For each blob, roll into cylinder about 18 inches long,
shape into a pretzel (this is harder than you might think ...) brush
with egg stuff, sprinkle with coarse salt, and put on greased cookie
sheet.

Note: Feel free to use egg substitute instead of the egg, or just skip
the egg, and brush with only water (to help the salt stick). Or, leave
off the glaze and the salt entirely.

Let pretzels rise again for 30 minutes. (Very impatient and/or hungry
people can omit this step.)

Bake for 10-12 minutes in preheated 475 deg (F) oven. Eat as soon as possible.

Yield: 12 soft pretzels

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