{"id":1169,"date":"2011-09-11T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2011-09-11T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T17:19:58","slug":"pretzels-aka-goal-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/pretzels-aka-goal-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretzels (aka goal 33)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year<\/a> one of my birthday goals was to make pretzels. I didn’t make it happen, so I carried the goal over. As I looked this year’s goals, the 33 things I want to accomplish by my 33rd birthday<\/a>, \u00a0I couldn’t bear the thought of having another year go by without completing this simple task, so I busted out the mixer and the yeast and went at it. A while ago, I bought a cookbook that is explicitly dedicated to the pretzel<\/a>. But the base recipe in that book required an overnight proofing, so I decided to look elsewhere. Hello Internet. So, I followed a recipe I found on <\/span>CHOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a pretty simple recipe.<\/p>\n

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Trying to figure out how to twist the pretzels was the biggest challenge. You can see that some are a better shape than others. This experience makes me want to go to the mall and observe the pretzel twisters there.<\/p>\n

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Next time, I think that I will try to make the pretzels a bit bigger, but I will also try to roll the dough out into thinner strips. I had a hard time with the rolling the strips. I kept trying to make them thinner hoping it would help me get a better pretzel shape, but then my strip would break before I could even twist the dough, much less get it into the pot for boiling. I thought about making ring shaped pretzels, but I thought that they might turn out too much like bagels<\/a>. I hadn’t known that the alkaline water<\/a> would make such a difference in how these turned out.<\/p>\n

I baked my pretzels in two batches. The first I baked a bit longer than the second (more than the 10 minutes the recipe called for). I think that these turned out better than the other ones.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty satisfied with this experience, but I want to go at it again. Besides, making a second batch of pretzels would go perfectly with goal 22, which is to make homemade mustard.<\/p>\n

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