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Soft Pretzels

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Soft Pretzels

Mark Bittman
Apr 30, 2020
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Soft Pretzels

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Like bagels, pretzels are boiled before baking. The key is adding baking soda to the water, which gives pretzels their distinctive flavor and brown, glossy crust. The recipe here produces perfectly chewy pretzels with dark, burnished exteriors. If you like your soft pretzels to have a little more crunch on the outside but remain tender and chewy in the …

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