Name: Salt Pretzels (Kringler)
Yield: 12 small pretzels
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 1 egg well beaten with a pinch of salt; 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter, softened; 1½ teaspoons sugar; ½ cup warm milk, about 110 degrees; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons active dry yeast; Kosher salt for sprinkling; 1 large egg; 2 cups all-purpose flour (spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off)

Preparation info

12
small pretzels

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Baker's Tour

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

About

These are an amusing addition to an assortment of dinner rolls.

Ingredients

Dough

2 cups all-purpose flour (spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off)
½ teaspoon salt
1½

Method

In the bowl of an electric mixer stir together the flour, salt, and sugar. Rub in the butter with your hands or a pastry blender. Whisk the yeast into the milk, then add liquid to the flour mixture. Add the egg and use a large rubber spatula to mix to a rough dough.
Place the bowl on the mixer with the dough hook and mix on lowest speed for 2 minutes. Stop the