RecipeMuncher

I have been reading about store-bought and homemade pretzel dough shaped into burger and hot dog buns. I have always wanted to make pretzels that are chewy and have thin dark crusts and thought the recipe from Jeffrey Hamelman’s BREAD would be a good one to try. I followed the recipe as written but I didn’t poach the dough in lye and water solution because I don’t have lye. I boiled the pieces in baking soda and water instead and they came out wonderfully dark brown all ove (...)