Soft Homemade Pretzels recipe

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Ingredients

2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
1 cup warm water (110 degrees F (43 degrees C))
3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 tablespoon shortening, melted
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon water
coarse salt, or to taste

Nutrition Info

158 calories
carbohydrate: 30.4 g
cholesterol: 17.1 mg
fat: 1.8 g
fiber: 1.2 g
protein: 4.4 g
saturatedFat: 0.5 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 676.4 mg
sugar: 2.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Stir yeast into 1 cup warm water in a large bowl, beat in flour, sugar, shortening, and salt to make a dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.

  2. Place dough into a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down dough and divide into 12 equal-size pieces. Roll each piece into a rope 18 to 20 inches long.

  3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.

  4. Shape each rope of dough into a pretzel on the prepared baking sheet, let pretzels rest for 5 minutes. Beat egg yolk with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl and brush yolk mixture over each pretzel, sprinkle each with coarse salt.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until pretzels are golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Recipe Yield

1 dozen pretzels

Recipe Note

Fun to make.

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