Homemade pretzels
I was feeling a little bit adventurous this morning and decided to try my hand at baking pretzels.. Well, the weather didn’t turn out right, it was raining all day and my dough did not seem to double its size. Nevertheless, I persevere and in the end manage to complete the pretzels..
I am a bit ‘shy-shy cat’ to show the picture of the pretzel here.. yes, you may laugh. Its ugly, I know ! The above pretzel had no fancy glaze on, just melted butter and honey. Anyway, here is the recipe, adapted from the book “Bake” by Rachel Allen.
Ingredients :
600 gm bread flour 1 teaspoon yeast 2 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 375 ml warm water For the bicarb solution – 75gm sodium bicarbonate and 1 liter water. Add the flour, yeast, sugar and salt in your mixer bowl fitted with a dough hook. Mix together oil and water. Add the liquid to the flour mixture and knead for about 10 minutes. Rub the dough with some oil, cover and leave to rise for about 1 to 3 hours. After the dough has risen to double its size, punch it down and cut into smaller balls, the same weight. Roughly about 85 to 100 gm each.





The outcome – I think the pretzels taste just like bread, as you can see the ingredients are very simple and nothing rich. But there is that unique taste as a result of the bicarb bath (which you cannot skip !) For me, I would definitely need glaze, maybe chocolate, to go with the pretzels. Just like donuts, I don’t like it plain. After making pretzel, I’m having second thoughts about making bagels.. maybe the best solution is to buy these things, no matter how pricey they are. But don’t let me set you back, we have to try, right ? And anyway, nothing beats homemade.
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Kak, if substitute half mungkin jadi, tapi kena ada tepung roti/ high protein flour if not tak jadi rotinye. Sebab tpg gandum biasa tak cukup protein to convert to gluten which makes a bread. Tapi akak boleh la experiment..
Min, kalau tak guna tepung roti , guna tepung gandum boleh tak?
Hai Nadi.. thanks for the word of encouragement, but I think I’ll just buy the pretzels from now on
Hamim, insyaallah ye.
Adlin, thank you dik.
Salam kak min…
I adlin…pagi tadi i called u from Sg petani, asking about your book…
i found it at MPH and bought already…very helpful and straightforward book…keep up sharing with us out here..thanx again…
p/s: i wrote an entry about ur book in my personal blog…feel free to read
http://ratuhatinya.blogspot.com/2010/07/diariku.html
salam
kak
mohon pautkan blog saya di blog akak ya
terima kasih
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Haha! no la your pretzels are really cute! ^__^
i never made bread before because maybe i just dont have the patient to see it rise! but maybe i will try again! thanks for sharing your little experiment! xoxo NADI