Our family has an LDS church general conference tradition of making homemade soft pretzels. And dipping them in our favorite honey mustard dipping sauce. The unique thing about homemade pretzels is that you boil the uncooked dough before you bake the pretzels. And the boiling happens in water that is saturated with baking soda! So cool! That's what gives the pretzel its distinctive sour, salty, chewy taste and texture.
We have decided that pretzel sticks are way easier to make/boil than actual pretzel shapes, so we go with that. Plus, I can fit way more sticks on a baking sheet. Here are the sticks in the boiling water. They stay there for about 60 seconds. Then you carefully fish them out and place them on a cooling rack to drain. After that, they go on a greased cookie sheet. An egg wash gets brushed on, followed by a sprinkling of course salt. Then they're baked :)
LOVE! I'm drooling right now. Not sure why, but these things hit the spot. And here's our favorite sauce. Perfect combo. But this item can only be purchased "seasonally" at Costco. So stock up! And happy conference weekend!
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