soft pretzel: updating with notes on pretzel dogs

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Soft Pretzel.txt b/Soft Pretzel.txt
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--- a/Soft Pretzel.txt
+++ b/Soft Pretzel.txt
@@ -15,12 +15,10 @@ Ingredients:
    2 tbl      baking soda
 
    Pre-bake coating:
-   1          egg (beaten)
-   1 tsp      water
    1-4 tbl    coarse salt
 
    Post-bake coating:
-   4 tbl      butter (melted)
+   4 tbl      butter, melted (optional)
 
 Directions:
    Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add
@@ -30,9 +28,11 @@ Directions:
    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! 
+   or less thick) and shape. Place pretzel in soda solution for 1-2 minutes,
+   remove from solution, and place on greased baking sheet. Allow pretzels to
+   rise again (about the amount of time it takes to fill a baking sheet).
+   Sprinkle with salt and bake in 450 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes
+   or until golden.  Brush with melted butter and enjoy! 
 
 Variations:
    Salt Coated:
@@ -45,10 +45,31 @@ Variations:
    the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the
    cinnamon mixture.
 
-Notes:
-   * 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!
+Pretzel Dogs:
+
+      1          batch of soft pretzel dough
+      14         hebrew hotdogs (7 per pack)
+
+   Prepare dough and cut hotdogs in half.  Pinch off dough and roll into a
+   rope aboue 1/2 inch thick.  Starting at one end, roll the hotdog over the
+   rope to cover. Pinch off excess when hotdog is covered, and continue with
+   next hotdog.  Drop dough covered hotdogs in baking soda solution for 1-2
+   minutes (I do 3-5 hotdogs at one and let them soak while I prepare the next
+   3-5 hotdogs). Place hotdogs on baking sheet and let dry slightly (I usually
+   let them sit until I put the next batch on the baking sheet) and sprinkle
+   with kosher salt.  Bake in 450 degrees F oven for 11-12 minutes or until
+   golden.  Make pretzels with an excess dough.  I do not brush the pretzel
+   dogs with butter.
+
+   For potlucks, I quadruple the recipe and use about 50-60 hotdogs.  When
+   making them in bulk, I use the following cycle:
+
+      1. Make dough rope
+      2. Wrap hotdogs in dough or tie pretzel
+      3. Remove previous batch of hotdogs/pretzels from bath and place on
+         baking sheet.
+      4. Drop batch of hotdogs/pretzels into bath
+      5. Salt the hotdogs/pretzels which were removed the previous cycle
+      6. Repeat step 1 until baking sheet is full.
+
 
-Source: 
-   http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/352/Aunt_Annies_Soft_Pretzels13849.shtml