Conor Porter’s Soft Pretzels

Ingredients

dough:

• 3 cups flour
• 10.5 oz. tap water
• 1/4 tsp. instant or active dry yeast
• 1 Tbs. sugar
• 1.5 tsp. salt egg wash:
• 2 egg yolks
• twice as much water as egg yolk (by volume)
• coarse sea salt
• 3 Tbs. baking soda

Instructions

1. mix flour, sugar and salt in bowl
2. add instant yeast to dry incredients or active dry yeast to water, depending on type used
3. mix dry ingredients
4. add water to dry ingrdients
5. mix until fully mixed; the handle of a spoon works well
6. cover bowl with plastic wrap and let proof for 8-18 hours in a warm place
7. cut dough into 8 sections and roughly shape into cylinders
8. let proof for additional 10 minutes
9. pull cylinders to shape into ropes of dough
10. shape and cut as desired
11. add 3 Tbs. baking soda to pan of boiling water, reduce to simmer
12. poach dough in water for about 30 seconds per side
13. remove dough and let drain
14. mix egg yolks with twice as much water as yolk
15. brush eggwash over dough
16. sprinkle on the coarse salt
17. bake at 450F for 14 minutes, or until brown

Enjoy!

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