"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 20:30:00 -0700, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> I was just looking at recipes last night. The trend for at home now is
>>> to
>>> dip in just plain boiling water and that's what I did when I made them.
>>> Apparently lye is only for German pretzels.
>
> Home bakers of pretzels boil in water to which BAKING SODA has been
> added. Boiling in plain water would be pointless, unlike your head.
>
>> Where do you think pretels originated? Are you eating Japanese pretzels?
>
> We have the Pennsylvania Dutch to thank for them being as popular as
> they are today. Not New York as Barbie seems to think. But yes, Very
> German in origin.

I learned to make them with lye water. And my mother's family is PD.




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