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Ever since we went to Rothenburg, Bavaria Jean has been asking me to make soft pretzels. We spent several days there biking the verdant countryside, exploring the medieval city walls and eating everything in sight. The local soft pretzels were particularly memorable. So months later I was in the mood to bake something and Jean suggested that I attempt soft pretzels.
Well, I am a big fan of Alton Brown and a few days earlier I caught the tail end of his pretzel making episode. I got to work armed with his recipe from the Food Network website. I followed the recipe faithfully except I like to finish kneading breads by hand and the recipe uses a stand mixer for this.
The process went very smoothly and Jean came to assist me with the all important glazing and topping. We coated half with salt and the other half with cinnamon and sugar.
They turned out soft and delicious. We ate them warm right out of the over. Jean even made a white frosting for dipping which was quite tasty. This may sound odd, but we were both surprised by the pretzel-ly flavor. They tasted like pretzels. I think I expected a plain bread flavor but got exactly the flavor I wanted and it wasn't very difficult.
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