Bread and Pretzels
For Octoberfest this year we made bread and pretzels. Overall the pretzels came out great but the bread didn’t do as well as usual. We made 29 pretzels, all except 3 big ones were made in the electric oven. The process for the pretzels after you have them formed is to boil them for 10 seconds first:
After the boiling in baking soda and water the pretzel must be salted:
Finally it is time to bake the pretzel in the oven:
With the oven hot I decided to put some Lotti’s (Charlotte’s Waltnut Raisin) in however I am not sure what made it not turn out so good. Might have been the cold and rainy weather or it might have been the oven was not as hot as usual. This round the oven was heating up for 5 hours but it still was not hot. It could be because there was too much ash by the end. It looks good and tastes fine but just isn’t what past batches were.
