[Sca-cooks] Period Pretzels, yet again...

[Johnna Holloway]

The Dutch have their sweet version called a krakelingen.

Simon Schama talks about them and their various appearances in paintings in The Embarrassment of Riches: 
saying, "The root of krakeling is krakeel, quarrel or fight, and when we know through antiquarian sources that small children pulled large krakelingen at each side in a little-finger tug-of-war similar to our practice with the wishbone of a chicken…"

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Johnna

On Feb 17, 2013, at 8:24 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> A cooking competition in March is for soft pretzels. The head of the sponsoring group says the only ingredients that can be used are starter, flour, water, and salt if you wish, and that entrants must make and use their own starter.