Bavarian Pretzels

The ingredients you will need for this spendid receipe are:

1- 1/2 cups of very warm water

1 Tblsp. Yeast

1/4 cup sugar

3-4 cups flour

4 Tblsp. baking soda

10 cups water

1 egg white

1/4 course kosher salt

First add the yeast, warm water and sugar. Mix and let sit until it gets foamy (about 1-2 mins).

Then add 3 cups of the flour and mix until it is no longer sticky - add more if need be.

Keep an eye on it and make sure you don't make too big of a mess!

Then take a palm sized amount to a lightly floured surface.

Roll out until it is about 12 inches long.

Then twist into pretzel shape (I made a couple twists and a bunch of nuggets too).

Let rest and rise until all the dough is made into pretzels.

Add your baking soda to your water pot and bring to boil. This is a good time to get your lightly greased pan ready as well.

Add pretzels to boiling water for about 15 seconds each - then place on greased pan and brush with your egg wash; then sprinkle with salt (i didn't have the course kind so I used regular table salt). Next step - put into your pre-heated oven of 475 degrees for about 10 minutes or until they are as dark or light as you so desire.

This is what the twists and nuggets looked like when I took them out of the oven!

Here is a plate of the pretzels, twists and nuggets!

Enjoy!

Love of Cute Aprons and a Darling Strand of Pearls!

I have finally decided to come back to the blogger world as a happily married wife. I am finally settled in our new home in Kansas and am enjoying the married life immensly. I hope my friends who are interested in my life and what I am up to will enjoy reading my posts as I hope to keep up with it.

Some friends have blogs and have encouraged me to become a blogger too. I started one a few months ago, which some of you may have followed and may already know about, but I decided I needed one to reflect my new life as a wife and, God-willing, a mother someday. So, I called it "Aprons & Pearls" simply because I love cute aprons and I love pearls! However, I did name it that with a another meaning as well. I figure being a housewife you have your apron for cooking, cleaning and tending to the duties of the house but also wearing that darling strand of pearls to make you look and feel great while you're doing it. Of course the idea of wearing cute lil heels while you're vacumming is a great idea and one which I think would be neat to do, even though I don't, especially if the hubby was home while I was cleaning...but in general, no heels while vacuuming for me.