[Sca-cooks] Re: Pretzels

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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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