Simple pretzel for home use with household soda
For those who would like to make their own lye cookies at home, but do not dare to buy caustic soda or can not purchase them, there is also the option of making pretzels with simple soda.
In contrast to the caustic soda, in which the pastry is dipped cold before baking, in the case of household soda, the pastry is cooked in the liquid for about 1 minute. This is done by adding water and adding 3 good tablespoons of soda per liter of water. As soon as the soda water boils, the biscuits are successively added to the liquid and lifted out with a ladle after one minute. Then they are given for baking on a prepared baking sheet, sprinkled at will with spices or sea salt or coarse salt and pushes them into the 200 ° C hot oven.
If you want, bake with steam, set the oven to 230 ° C and pour water on the bottom of the oven lying fat catcher. Then immediately close the door and turn the oven down to 200 ° C after a few minutes.
For the production of pretzel pastries various simple yeast doughs are suitable from light simple wheat flour (type 405), with this method, however, the use of wheat wheat flour is possible.
