[Sca-cooks] Re: Pretzels

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  Does anyone have access to Dutch cookery books to see if
there's a recipe for pretzels there?  _Windmills in My Oven_ (A Book of
Dutch Baking), while not giving a period recipe, states: "An
eighteenth-century recipe describes a dough made from flour, egg yolks and
a moderate amount of butter, flavoured with coriander and rese-water,
shaped into pretzels, baked and dried in the oven to produce a hard
biscuit."  (p. 119)  The author, Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra, commented that
Dutch pretzels are much sweeter than pretzels from other countries.

Alys Katharine