{"id":2637,"slug":"pretzels-soft","title":"Pretzels (Soft)","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["4 cups flour","1 tsp salt","1 tbsp white granulated sugar","1 package yeast (¼ oz active dry yeast, 2¼ tsp dry yeast, or one 0.6 oz yeast cake)","1½ cups warm water","Egg white (or beaten whole egg)","Coarse salt (margarita or kosher salt)"],"ingredients_norm":["flour","salt","white granulated sugar","yeast","warm water","egg white","coarse salt"],"steps":["Dissolve the yeast in the water.","Mix in the salt, sugar, and flour.","Knead the dough until it is smooth.","Roll out (do not cut) a blob of dough until it is a rope about 18 inches long.","If a traditional shape is desired: Make a loop with the middle of the dough, crossing the dough over itself at about the 15% and 85% areas. Give this contact point a 180° twist, then flip it (and the ends) over toward the middle of the dough piece so that the ends overlap the more-central part at about the 45% and 55% areas.","Brush the pretzel with egg.","Sprinkle coarse salt onto the egg.","Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Recipes for bread","Baking recipes","Snack recipes","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using egg","Recipes using wheat flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Pretzels_(Soft)","source_ref":"4504072","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Pretzels_(Soft)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"e03c18806a945fb9d0ff5d90170c07eb5835c6fdc9390450eb5885074bcc734c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:15Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:15Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/pretzels-soft"}