Pretzels

There is nothing that can beat the smell of fresh baked bread. Fresh bread is my weakness. I love granary rolls, rye bread, multi grain bread, french loaves, sourdough, Irish soda bread - hey where do I stop?? A current favourite in my home is the pretzel. My very first memory of pretzels is buying them off a roadside cart in Munich and chewing them ever so slowly as I walked round the city and th

Fresh pretzels baking in the ovenTalking about bagels this morning reminded me that I haven't made homemade pretzels in awhile and my youngest daughter absolutely loves them! She would buy them at the mall daily if I let her... and of course, if we lived so close to the mall that she could walk there herself, since she IS only 12 years old.Either way; the pretzels are made.Homemade Pretzels12 oz

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray CHOCOLATE PRETZELSThanks to Happy Cook, have woken up from my slumber to make my first entry for a wonderful and festive blog event...'A Spoonful of Christmas' which is a 'food as a gift' theme event...'An event designed for all the people who love to cook for their loved ones. Those, who are willing to spend some time in the kitchen in order to come up with great ideas for food as a gift.' Great way to usher in the holiday season, and a theme that I can't think can get better. HOME-MADE gifts...my mantra always! The mind is thinking, so hopefully Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen should have more entries.Here's a recipe I've made umpteen times, over & over again. It's from my first baking book I bought after I got married, 'The Baking Encyclopedia' . The kids love these chocolaty, crisp pretzels. I sometimes colour co-ordinate them with the cake frosting at birthdays; & at

Chocolate covered pretzels recipe ingredients: 100 grams unsalted butter 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon cold milk 5 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons ground almonds Pinch salt Chocolate glaze ingredients: 100 grams chocolate 80 grams unsalted butter Chocolate pretzels recipe instruction: Mix softened butter with sugar, vanilla sugar, milk and egg yolk. Combine flour, almonds and salt, and mix it in the butter mixture. Make smooth dough from all pretzel ingredients and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Stretch dough to be about 0, 5 centimeter thick, make pretzels with a pretzel mold and arrange them on a wax paper in the baking pan. Bake them in the preheated oven to 180°C for about 10 minutes. Cool them and cover the pretzels with chocolate. Chocolate dipped pretzels recipe instruction: Melt a chocolate with butter on the steam. Stir the chocolate glazing for a while to cool off. Dip the pretzels in the choc

Chocolate covered pretzels recipe ingredients: 100 grams unsalted butter 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar 1 egg yolk 1 tablespoon cold milk 5 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons ground almonds Pinch salt Chocolate glaze ingredients: 100 grams chocolate 80 grams unsalted butter Chocolate pretzels recipe instruction: Mix softened butter with sugar, vanilla sugar, milk and egg yolk. Combine flour, almonds and salt, and mix it in the butter mixture. Make smooth dough from all pretzel ingredients and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Stretch dough to be about 0, 5 centimeter thick, make pretzels with a pretzel mold and arrange them on a wax paper in the baking pan. Bake them in the preheated oven to 180°C for about 10 minutes. Cool them and cover the pretzels with chocolate. Chocolate dipped pretzels recipe instruction: Melt a chocolate with butter on the steam. Stir the chocolate glazing for a while to cool off. Dip the pretzels in the choc

Ingredients:1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch dressing1-cup oil1 Tbsp Blackened Steak Seasoning1 tsp Cayenne Pepper (or to taste)1 tsp dill16 oz pretzelsMix spices/oilCoat Pretzels with mixturePlace coated pretzels on cookie sheet and back fro 1hr at 200 degrees.

INGREDIENTS:1 1/2 tsp Yeast, 1/2 tsp Brown sugar, 1 tsp Salt, 1 1/2 c Water,4 c Bread flour, 2 tsp Baking soda, 2 c Warm water, 1/2 lb Butter,2 Tbsp Honey, White sugar Brown sugar.Preparation Instructions: Mix yeast, brown sugar, dash of saltand 1 1/2 cups water. Let sit for five minutes. Add bread flour.Knead well. Let rise for about one hour. Grease baking sheet.Mix baking soda and warm water. Take a piece of dough and rolland shape into a pretzel. The easiest way to shape is to rollinto a rope, whatever size you prefer. Pinch ends of rope thenbring ends of rope to other side of circle. Dip pretzels inwarm water and baking soda mixture and put on baking sheet.Bake at 425F for about 12 minutes. While still hot, brushwith melted butter and honey. Sprinkle with white and brownsugar (approx. half and half mixture).Servings Size: 1

Ingredients: 1 tbsp. yeast1/2 c. warm water1 tsp. honey1 1/3 c. flour1 tsp. salt Utensils: oven (You'll need help from your adult assistant.)small bowlmixing spoonmedium-size bowlcutting board, sprinkled with flourbaking sheet, sprayed with nonstick spraymeasuring cups and spoons Directions: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (165 degrees Celsius).Put the yeast in a small bowl with the water and honey. Stir a little, then let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.Mix the flour and salt together in a medium-size bowl.After the 5 minutes is up, check on the yeast mixture. It should be bigger than before and a little bubbly. Add this mixture to the flour and salt mixture.Stir everything together. Use a spoon to start. Finish with your hands. The dough is ready when it's still a little crumbly and flaky.Put the dough on the cutting board and knead it like you are playing with clay. Knead it into one big ball.Break off a piece of dough that's about the size of a big gumball or super

There are lots of places to buy snacks in Seoul. One thing that hit me by surprise was the large concentration of Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robbins, Starbucks, and Coffee Bean locations on every street corner. This is to go along with the plethora of convenience stores and Krispy Kreme locations. One of the largest American pretzel chains, Auntie Anne's is highly popular in Korea and can be found within the food court of many Hyundai Department Stores.Since I love eating food (you probably do too I assume) here are some pictures of my first Auntie Anne's pretzel. Although there are locations in Canada, there were no locations near my home in BC. Regardless, South Koreans are crazy about Auntie Anne's pretzels just like they are crazy about Krispy Kreme. There are always huge line ups for fresh pretzels! EDIT: Here's a fresh picture of their line ups taken today!For 2000w ($2USD) you can wrap your hands around fresh baked pretzel. I didn't take a picture of the line up because I was to

Mr Hopgood leaves for St. Clements Primary half an hour before me - which is a relief.At school the lower years have gone mad on skipping. You cannot cross the playground without getting whiplash from some one's rope. Only the Year 6 boys are aloof.I tried it out at lunch time break. Alice Noble lent me her skipping rope and showed me how to do a pretzel, but I got all tangled up and fell over just as Lennox Hardy came past. He bounced a basketball off my head. It really hurt.I thought about telling Mrs Harboard the lollipop/dinner lady but she was doing a double pretzel with Mrs Shap the reception teacher.

A beer truck was involved in a crash underneath the Mancunian Way tonight, causing the closure of a roundabout and re-routing of traffic away from the Premier Travelodge (can this be made permanent?).The truck was laden with beer kegs and some unlucky sod is having to remove every single one before they can tow the vehicle away. At present it's surrounded by a suspiciously high number of police, and a lot of confused looking grease monkeys.Whathappenedlastnight guide to Manchester

Soft pretzels are one of my favorite indulgences. A friend and I were going to try making some, and I found this easier-than-your-average-bread recipe using a bread machine. Try it out! As usual with bread machines, it’s important to measure everything precisely. Soft Pretzels 1 1/4 c water 3 1/2 c bread flour 1 t salt 1 egg yolk (save white for later, but don’t add to bread mixture) 1 T oil 1 t lemon juice 2 T sugar 1/8 t white pepper 1 T active dry yeast Place ingredients in order listed into bread machine “pan.” Use dough setting. Start machine. Punch down and on a lightly floured surface cut the dough into 16 equal pieces. Roll each piece of dough into a rope about 16″ long. Shape each rope into a pretzel. (Cross the ends of the rope to make a loop; twist the crossed ends once and fold across the loop.) Place the pretzels on a greased baking sheet 1 1/2″ apart. Brush with combined egg white and 1 T water. Sprinkle with salt or sesame seeds.