Make Your Own Pretzels at Home
Ingredients:
1 tsp. Active Dry Yeast
1/4 tsp White Sugar
1/3 cup Hot Water
1 1/4 cup All-Purpose Flour
1/8 cup White Sugar
1/4 tbsp Oil
Pinch of Salt
1/4 tbsp Baking Soda
1 cup Warm Water
Directions:
- Mix Active Dry Yeast, 1/4 tsp White Sugar and Hot Water in a measuring cup. Mix well and let sit for 5-10 minutes.
- Mix Flour, 1/8 cup White Sugar and salt.
- Combine the Yeast Mixture and Flour Mixture. Add oil.
- Kneed dough for 10 minutes or until a firm round ball is created (you may need to add water or flour depending upon whether or dough is too firm to too wet.)
- Rub oil on the inside of a bowl and put the dough in that bowl, covered with a clean dish cloth. Let rise for 1 hour.
- Once the dough has doubled in size remove from the bowl.
- Roll the dough into long thin strips. Twist the strips into the shape pretzels you would like to make.
- Dip the pretzels in a mixture of water and baking soda.
- Lay pretzels on a well greased cookie sheet
- Add salt as desired.
- Put in the oven at 425 degrees for 6-10 minutes (or until golden in color.)
- Remove, let cool for 10 minutes then eat and enjoy.