#Soft pretzel recipe how to#
The closest would be Obatzda or melted cheese on the Brezn! How to Make German Pretzels – Step by Step Instructions Sometimes in North America, you can buy a soft pretzel with a cheese dip (usually at a sports game) but this “dip” isn’t popular in Germany. These are generally called “soft pretzels” – which are the closest equivalent to an authentic German Laugenbrezeln. Kind of like the ones you’d find at a North American amusement park or county fair. While these snacks are also available in Germany, traditional German pretzels are a lot softer and larger. If you are from North America, you might mainly know pretzels out of a bag as a small crispy snack. One German pretzel with some classic Obatzda – the great Bavarian cheese spead! German Pretzels vs North American Pretzels So, we’re confident with our German pretzel recipe without lye since it still creates the perfect pretzels with a soft center and golden brown outside. We use baking soda and it gives the pretzels the same outer color. That’s why we – and many other non-professional bakers – don’t like use lye in our kitchen. Lye is a basic (on the pH scale) and dangerous chemical compound. The secret to German pretzels is to make them with lye – it’s how they get their color when baked. Lisa likes her pretzels warm out of the oven with a little bit of butter while Eric likes them with as much coarse salt as possible! Making German Pretzels Without Lye When Eric came along, pretzels became something we’d grab when on-the-run travelling from city to city by bus or train. Lisa grew up in Germany – she’s actually from Bavaria – so she used to eat pretzels all the time.
You can find the same dough that these pretzels are made from also in the shape of a small “baguette” – then they are called Laugenstangen.
There are different types of pretzels in Germany, but the Laugenbrezel is by far the most common one. Our German Pretzels were straight-up mouthwatering…Īs we mentioned, these pretzels are called Laugenbrezeln in Germany, sometimes also just Brezn, or even some other regional names.
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