Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Dissolve the yeast in 1/8 cup warm water. Stir in remaining warm water, brown sugar and flour. Bear until smooth. Knead until smooth and elastic.
  2. use hands to roll out dough into "snakes". Twist into traditional pretzel shape or braid.
  3. Heat oven to 475 degrees.
  4. Fill a saucepan with water. Pour in baking soda (2tbls to each cup of water in saucepan) and bring to a boil.
  5. Place twisted pretzel dough in water for 15 seconds until dough is golden or yellow in color. Then remove pretzel from boiling water and place on a salted cookie sheet. Salt top of pretzel too.
  6. Place cookie sheet with pretzels in the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes until pretzels are golden brown.