Pretzel Recipie goodness

I baked 4 batches of these this morning and they have been eaten like hot cakes. Try making them for pretzel goodness. Also my friend Peter says you can subsititute one cup of flour for wheat flour and add honey for extra deliciousness.


Ingrediants for 1 batch:
4 cups flour
2 table spoons or one packet yeast
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 2/3 cup warm water
coarse salt
5-6 table spoons baking soda

Preheat the over to 375
Heat a pot of hot water while adding the baking soda to make a baking soda bath Line a cooking pan or two with crisco

- Mix brown sugar with warm water and add yeast, let it sit for 3-4 minutes
- Pour 4 cups of flour into food processor, add the mixture and let it mix for 20 revolutions
- After twenty revolutions you should have a ball of dough that has the consistency of play-do, depending on the flour it may be too soft and you'll need to add pinches of flour to get the right consistency, if the dough is ready before 20 revolutions the ball will be heavy enough to stop the food processer
- Knead the dough a bit to make sure it all has the same consistency
- Cut dough into smaller portions, usually you can make 12 large sized pretzels or 16 good sized ones
- Roll each piece out and fold into pretzel shape
- Add each pretzel into the baking soda bath for 30 seconds each
- Remove pretzels and place on crisco sheet sprinkle salt, a little salt goes a long way but it's personal preference
- Place sheet in the oven for 7-10 min until pretzels are a golden brown
- remove and serve with cautionary tales about hotness
Usually goes well with just about anything, cheese, butter, mustard, ham, beer, etc etc etc

So many unwritten

I've had so many topics I've needed to write and so many of them are half written and discarded or saved and never to be completed. I don't know what's going on but I'm struggling to write anything I like. I'll have all these great ideas and then when I sit down to actually complete them it doesn't happen. I need to try harder.