Pretzels

Preparation info
  • Makes

    10–12

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

  • About

There are three options here. The first produces dark brown pretzels because of the alkalisation process. The plain or sea salt and caraway baked options are simpler but also delicious, and the last, a sweet version, is rolled in cinnamon sugar – what can I say …

Ingredients

Method

Make the dough as per the recipe and leave it to rise in a warm, draught-free place for 2–2½ hours, until doubled in size.

Knock back the dough and divide it into approx. 100g pieces. Roll each piece into a thin rope, about 60cm long × 1cm thick.

To shape the pretzels, form each piece of dough into a loose horseshoe shape with the ends pointing