

Please understand that this is all that comes to my mind about lye and safety, this list might not be complete and you are working with lye on your own accountability.
PRETZEL BUN RECIPE SKIN

For this, you must have food-grade Sodium Hydroxide (get it on Amazon HERE). Lye is called “Lauge” in German and we call the pretzels “Laugenbrezn” and the rolls “Laugenbrötchen” and the braids “Laugenzöpfe” and so on.įor all these recipes on pretzel-things, you will need a 3.5% to a maximum of 4% lye. This will further increase the light texture of your rolls. Now, you can just use 15g of that in this recipe or use 10g of dry malt and then add 3g of Dextrose and 2g of Soy Lecithin. This alone will already give your rolls a nice brown color and a great taste. You will need some dry Malt, which I have already introduced in other recipes like the Schrippen Rolls. We call these supporting ingredients “Backmittel” which I can only translate as “baking stuff” – haha. For this, I am adding some ingredients that help the dough to rise better and increase the taste. In this recipe here, I also want to have certain properties like a light and fluffy crumb. There is a difference between the recipe for Pretzels and the one for Pretzel Braids so don’t switch them out. With this recipe, you can make soft pretzel rolls or the soft pretzel braids that I show you in the video. I love pretzels but I like soft pretzel braids even better! They are so fluffy and much easier to eat with butter or other toppings.
