Soft Pretzels

Name: Soft Pretzels
Yield: Makes 12 pretzels
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon, instant yeast; 1/4 cup, honey; 1 teaspoon, Salt; 3 cups (16 1/2 ounces), bread flour, plus more for dusting the work surface; 1 cup, warm water, (about 110 degrees); 3 tablespoons, baking soda; 2 tablespoons, coarse salt, poppy seeds, or sesame seeds, (optional)

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Bread flour yielded pretzels with just the right degree of chewiness and resilience—by comparison, soft pretzel recipes using all-purpose flour, which has less protein than bread flour, produced fluffy pretzels. Soft pretzels are traditiona...

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