Auntie Annes Pretzels

Total Time: 12 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 teaspoons yeast
• 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 4 cups bread flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cups warm water
• 1/2 lb butter
• 2 tablespoons honey

Recipe

• 1 combine the 1/2 tsp brown sugar, touch of salt, 1 1/2 tsp yeast, and 1 1/2 cups water together.
• 2 leave it sit for 5 minutes.
• 3 now add the 4 cups of bread flour and knead well. then let it rise for an hour.
• 4 preheat your oven to 425 degrees (f).
• 5 in a separate bowl, combine the 2 teaspoons of baking soda and 2 cups of warm water.
• 6 take a chunk of the dough and make it into the shape of a pretzel, then dunk the dough in the baking soda water, and set it on a greased cookie sheet.
• 7 ----.
• 8 to make the pretzel shape, roll the chunk into one long strand and hold the two ends and put them together to make a circle. twist it once and lay it down. try it a couple times and you'll get it.
• 9 leave in oven at 425 degrees (f) for 12 minutes.
• 10 in a small bowl melt your butter (by putting the butter on the stove or microwave) and mix the butter with the 2 tablespoons of honey. when the pretzel is done it the oven, take it out. let it cool for a minute and brush some of the butter/honey over the warm pretzel.