The boyfriend suggested we make our own and so I looked up a copycat recipe online and just added almonds to my pretzels (he kept his mainly with coarse salt). The result was pretty good! I even found a honey mustard recipe. He even found a biscuit recipe which we put together while waiting for the pretzel dough to rise.
Pretzel Recipe from this site:
Serves/Makes: 12
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup bread flour
3 cups regular flour
2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons baking soda
to taste coarse salt
to taste chopped almonds
4 tablespoons butter (melted)
PREPARATION:
Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Be certain to stir often. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope* (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape. Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Allow pretzels to rise again. Bake in 450 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes or until golden. Brush with melted butter and enjoy!
Toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt. Or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture. Enjoy!
* The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be. (Of course I don't have the counter space!)
*Sweet butter, not regular butter, is one of her secrets!
NUTRITION:
196 calories, 4g fat, 34g carbohydrates, 5g protein per serving. This recipe is low in fat.
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This recipe from CDKitchen for Aunt Annie's Soft Pretzels serves/makes 12
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Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
3/4 cup Mayonnaise
1/4 cup Honey
1/8 cup Dijon mustard
Combine all and chill.
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Bonus: Quick Tea Biscuits
Recipe from this site.
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400F
Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
Cut shortening in with pastry knife or 2 butter knives until the mixture is crumbly.
Add milk and stir with a fork to make a soft dough
Knead about 10 times and gently roll out to desired thickness – no less than ½ inch.
Cut out rounds with a cookie or biscuit cutter (I use small juice glass)
Repeat by gently kneading dough into one piece and repeating cutting until you use up all your dough (do not work the dough to hard doing this or your biscuits will be tough)
Place your biscuits on a greased cookie sheet
Bake for 12 – 15 minutes until golden and save warm
You can brush them with melted butter when you take them out of the oven for extra taste.
