Making Homemade Soft Pretzels
Author: Laura
Serves: 20-24
- 1 cup water
- 2 Tablespoon yeast
- 2 teaspoon honey
- 2½ cups milk
- 1 stick butter
- ½ cup honey
- 4 teaspoon sea salt
- 8 cups whole wheat flour (more or less as needed)
- butter
- salt
- In a large bowl, mix 1 cup warm water, yeast, and honey.
- Stir this together and kind of mush the yeast around.
- Let this sit for a few minutes while you do the next step.
- Melt a stick of butter in a large saucepan.
- Add honey, butter, salt, and milk. Heat this to 120 degrees.
- Pour milk mixture into yeast mixture and stir.
- Stir in 8 cups of flour, 2 cups at a time. (add more if you need it)
- Knead the dough for 5-10 minutes.
- Plop it into a bowl, cover it and let it rise for 1-1½ hours.
- Pull it out of the bowl and knead it a few times to get the air out.
- Pull a ball of dough, about the size of your fist off and get ready to make your very first pretzel!
- Roll it into a long snake.
- Twist the ends together, then twist it again (pictures below are helpful)
- Pick up the ends and pull them down to the bottom.
- After you shape each pretzel, put them on a cookie sheet about an inch apart.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Melt a stick of butter in a saucepan.
- Right when you take the pretzels out of the oven, slather them with butter. Lay it on thick. Don't hold back.
- Sprinkle salt over the buttered pretzels.
Recipe by Heavenly Homemakers at https://www.heavenlyhomemakers.com/making-homemade-soft-pretzels
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