Recipe: lye pretzels

I always thought to make pretzels its rocket since, and i payed gladly 1 Euro at the market for a pretzel from a German baker.
Just recently i discovered how easy it is to make your own ones, and its so simple, you can do that while you cook something else, f.e. your dinner or Sunday roast.

So here my story, thats the way you get started:

Ingredients
500 gram flour
1 pack yeast (20 gramms)
¼ Teaspoon sugar
350 ml     milk (lukewarm)
a bit of salt
2 spoons Natron, (baking soda)
Sea salt for toping it




Preparation: make a dough with the flour, yeast, sugar,salt and milk. Mix it well and than let it rest for 45 Minutes.
After, form a huge sausage of which you cut 12 even smaller pieces out of it.
form out of that pieces one pretzel each, thats the tricky part but after a few exercises you get there.
Boil a pot with water and add 2 spoons of the Natron (baking soda), it must be boiling, than throw in the pretzel for 30 seconds.

After that arrange them on a baking tray, leave space between them since they will get larger, add the salt on top and bake them in the oven with 180 C for 25 Minutes. as an alternative you also can make sticks (with cheese on top as well) or little breads.


Best served is a pretzel with Bavarian beer and butter,how to make the beer, I will teach you shortly !

Prost and Mahlzeit !