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+Soft Pretzel
+
+Ingredients:
+   Dough:
+   1 1/2 C    warm water
+   2 1/4 tsp  active dry yeast
+   2 tbl      brown sugar
+   1 1/8 tsp  salt
+   2 tbl      butter
+   1 C        bread flour
+   3 C        regular flour
+
+   Bath:
+   2 C        warm water
+   2 tbl      baking soda
+
+   Pre-bake coating:
+   1-4 tbl    coarse salt
+
+   Post-bake coating:
+   4 tbl      butter, melted (optional)
+
+Directions:
+   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. 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:
+   after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
+
+   Cinnamon Sugar:
+   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.
+
+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.
+
+