I have perfected this recipe already. My recipe changes are as follows. I do not use shortening at all. Another tip to better pretzels is heat a pot of boiling water. I use an upside down cookie sheet with paper and after the dough raises I put the Pretzels in a bath of boiling water and baking soda for about 10 to 30 seconds. Then I put them on the parchment paper and brush them with egg whites and salt them and bake at a higher temperature of 425 to really get a crunchy and chewy pretzel.
Two things: 1. For me, the amount of flour is excessive, so I would only add a little as I go otherwise I believe you will end up with a very stiff, unworkable dough. 2. The baking time was much more than listed on the recipe, so adjust the time according to your oven as every oven is different. But, having said that, how could you not enjoy homemade pretzels?
Loved these pretzels!! Much easier to make than I expected.
Only thing I changed was I didn't use shortening. Highly recommend
Wayyy too much flour. They taste ok but they're not very attractive. Dough separates when trying to roll out.
Very easy recipe. I was a bit surprised when mixing the yeast in warm water that you are not required to let it foam for 10 minutes. These tasted wonderful. The only thing I changed after reading reviews was the amount of flour. I only added 3 cups. Dough came out perfect. Instead of shortening I melted 1 tablespoon of butter. I WILL be making these again!
Yummy!! The kids loved to help me on these. They were fun to make and tasted great.
This recipe is perfect just as it is I've made it multiple times. Stick to the ingredients and you shouldn't have any problems if you substitute ingredients then I can't really say. I use vegetable shortening. Main thing I'd like to point out is to make sure you MELT THE SHORTENING! I was moving pretty quick cooking other things etc. and I didn't melt the shortening the dough was impossible and I thought I added too much flour. Also I wouldn't use packed cups of flour I just scooped out rough cups of flour with out packing them and everything comes out excellent. Great recipe!
Don't use eggs!!! They pooled around the bottem then started to burn making a horrible taste and smell. Other than that they were great! They had a hard crust which I didn't really like but it wasn't bad. Will try making a moister dough to avoid the crust and putting butter on instead of eggs. Yummy!
Have made this recipe several times everyone loves them! I did make a couple of changes I added a cup of my sourdough start i made from the receipe on this site mines about 6 months old. I cut mine into bite size pieces. I also started using honey instead of the sugar.
