Pretzels

Pretzels are made in two variations, both from the same dough. The thicker soft pretzels are boiled before baking in the same way as bagels, which kills the yeast immediately and eliminates any oven-spring. This, in combination with the dough not proofing very much, produces a fairly dense and chewy pretzel of the type typically sold garnished with mustard by street vendors, especially in cities on the East Coast.

The other pretzel, the hard type, is proofed and baked in the oven ju