Aunt Annie's Soft Pretzels

1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup bread flour
3 cups regular flour
2 cups Warm water
2 tablespoons baking soda
to taste coarse salt
4 tablespoons butter (melted)

Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve. Add
sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth
and elastic. Let rise at least 1/2 hour. While dough is rising, prepare
a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbsp baking soda. Be
certain to stir often. After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and
roll into a long rope* (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape. Dip
pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet. Allow pretzels
to rise again. Bake in 450 oven for about 10 minutes or until golden.
Brush with melted butter and enjoy!

Toppings: after you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt. or
for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar, try melting a stick of butter in
a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another
shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Dip the pretzel into
the butter, coating both sides generously. Then dip again into the
cinnamon mixture. Enjoy!

* The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie
Anne's they will be. (Of course I don't have the counter space!)

*Sweet butter, not regular butter, is one of her secrets!

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