Faith, Rebecca, and I were laying around in the family room and were feeling slightly hungry. Not hungry enough for a meal, but we were all feeling like having a small snack. As we sat around on our laptops googling places nearby our cravings grew stronger and stronger. "Something salty," Faith suggested. We looked up Cafes and the market near our house. Nothing seemed like it would satisfy.
At last I nailed down what I wanted. "A homemade soft pretzel dipped in honey mustard." Yes! I had figured out what we really wanted.
For three girls that had previously been too tired to move we instantly sprung into action. Recipes were googled and Rebecca flew into the kitchen to inspect our cabinets.
Our recipe was a little interesting. We had no yeast. I forgot to add the sugar. And we substituted soy milk for regular milk and olive oil for eggs. As for salt? Check out what we used...
But the pretzels turned out great...or at least we enjoyed eating them
Here is the recipe if you want to try to make pretzels at home:
1.5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar (which we forgot)
2 tablespoons margarine (we used vegan butter)
.5 cup shredded cheese (which we left out)
2/3 cup milk (soy milk for us)
1 egg (or olive oil, haha)
1.5 teaspoons coarse salt (aka margarita salt)
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar (or not)
cut in margarine
kneed dough
make pretzel shapes
brush olive oil on top
sprinkle with margarita salt
cook at 400 for 15 minutes
OR
get your butt off the couch, go to the store and either buy yeast to make better pretzels or the frozen kind
****PS I still have Cincinnati/New Years post to put up I am waiting on pictures from Ken
