Pretzels for tea or coffee, sweet and fresh, or salted pretzels to beer - a wonderful popular pastry. The name "pretzel" and the tradition of baking pretzels and pretzels comes from German lands and, according to legend, it is connected with a wonderful event in one of the monasteries. The monks began to bake pretzels, symbolizing the crossing of hands in gratitude to God. The idea diverged and was subjected to cultural-national and regional comprehension, due to which at the present time there are many different recipes for pretzels, with fillings and without, from different types of dough.
Tell you how to make delicious pretzels.
Pretzels with sugar and cinnamon - recipe
Ingredients:
- flour - about 2 cups;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- natural butter - about 100 g;
- Chicken egg - 1-2 pcs .;
- sour cream - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- common salt - 1 pinch;
- soda food, extinguished with lemon juice - 1 pinch;
- brandy or rum - 2 teaspoons;
- cinnamon;
- sugar for sprinkling.
Preparation
Sift into a bowl of flour, add salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, a little cinnamon, put out soda, sour cream, brandy melted butter. Stir and add the egg. Mix thoroughly and knead the dough.
From the resulting test, we roll out fairly thin layers, cut them into narrow long strips with a knife, which we carefully twist in a screw-like manner, and then turn off the small pretzels.
We spread the pretzels on a baking sheet oiled or oiled with oiled paper and sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.
Bake in the oven for about 15-25 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° -200 ° C.
Such pretzels can be prepared from puff pastry, bought in a store or cooked independently.
Preparation
From the finished dough, we form the pretzels and sprinkle them with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon before baking.
About the same (following the same recipe, see above), you can prepare pretzels with poppy seeds. We simply exclude cinnamon from the recipe (although, maybe we do not exclude it?). Poppy can be added to the dough and / or sprinkled with baking. Before sprinkling the surface of the pretzels must be greased with egg white.
Salted pretzels to beer
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - about 3 cups;
- sugar - 1-2 tbsp. spoons;
- yeast - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- water, or milk, or beer - 1 glass;
- common salt;
- baking soda.
Preparation
Mix in a little warmed-up water (or milk, or beer), sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir until completely dissolved. Gradually add the sifted flour. Thoroughly knead the dough and leave to stand in a warm place for 20-40 minutes, after which we mix again.
We divide the dough into pieces, from each piece we form the sausage not thicker than the pencil and we fold the pretzels.
We divorce in a glass of water 1 tablespoon of baking soda and with the help of a brush apply a solution of soda to the pretzel. Or you can immerse the pretzels for a moment into the solution completely with the help of a noise. We leave the pretzels prepared in this way
Bake at a temperature of about 180-200 ° C for about 15-25 minutes (controlled visually by color). The pretzels should turn out to be brilliant (in the literal sense of the word). Under the beer "fly away" on the first day (so with caution). If pretzels have not eaten at once - will dry up, but it does not matter - so they are also good.