INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon brown sugar
4 cups bread flour
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
Butter
Poppy seeds
Garlic salt
Sesame seeds
Sea salt crystals
Grated Parmesan Reggiano
DIRECTIONS:
Add wet ingredients, then dry ingredients.
Use dough cycle.
Use 2 pound load setting.
When dough cycle is near done, preheat oven to 450 degrees F
Melt butter
Grease cookie-sheets
Roll dough out into long tube
Slice into 12 equally-sized lumps
Roll lump into long worm-like strand
Bend into horseshoe
Twist ends of horseshoe once over
Flip twisted ends over loop, creating classic pretzel shape
Place on cookie sheet, repeat until all 12 lumps used
Glaze generously with butter
Sprinkle toppings that you wish on each pretzel.
Bake for 12 minutes, making sure they get brown but not dark/black/burned.
You can use other doughs like Garlic-Parmesan (dust with Parmesan and garlic salt) and Shiner Bock Beer Bread (dust with Cheddar Cheese shreds) to make things interesting