[Sca-cooks] Re: Pretzels
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Tue Nov 16 07:54:48 PST 2004
Also sprach 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
Sounds kinda like jumballs, doesn't it?
Adamantius
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