Ingredients

The following ingredients have 12 Servings
  • 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
  • 280 ml milk
  • 500 g strong white flour
  • 7 g instant yeast
  • 10 g salt
  • 40 g butter (softened)
  • 21 g bicarbonate of soda
  • 20 g coarse sea salt or edible rock salt

Instruction

  • Put the yeast, flour, salt, brown sugar and milk into the bread maker and set it to the dough setting but if you don't have a bread maker then follow the instructions here.
  • Put the oven on at 200C. Cut the dough into 12 evenly sized pieces.   Roll each one between your fingers until it reaches a length of about 40cm.
  • To make the dough into pretzel shapes, make a U shape then bring each end into the middle, cross them over each other and press them into the side of the U.  You should then get a pretzel shape with 3 holes.
  • Bring a large pan containing 7 liters of water to the boil.   Add the bicarbonate of soda and then add the pretzels, one at a time for 5 seconds each.
  • Sprinkle a little salt on the top of each pretzel.   Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.   Cool on a wire rack and eat on the same day.