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

[Sharon Palmer]

>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.

Rumpolt has several possible pretzel recipes, but 
none that fit in these guidelines.

A precedell (pretzel) made from almond.
A precedell (pretzel) made from eggs.
Precedeln (pretzels) made of pine nut kernels.

Zugemüß 166.  Take Brezel (pretzels)/ soak them 
in milk/ put them in a tart pan/ and small black 
raisins in it/ put good fresh butter/ that is 
unlarded/ over it/ push it in (the) oven/ and let 
bake/ or over hot ashes/ that are  hot under and 
over/ and when it is baked/ then turn it over in 
a dish/ sprinkle it with sugar/ and give warm on 
a table.

Suppen 23.  Take Bretzel (pretzels)/ and soften 
them in salt water/ put them on a dish/ and 
sprinkle them with black raisins and ginger/ 
baste with hot butter/ like this it is also good. 
Or sprinkle it with Parmesan cheese/ and pour hot 
butter over it.

Gebackens 55. Take a fair flour/ pure egg yolks/ 
and a little wine/ sugar and anise/ make a dough 
with it/ roll it nicely long and round with clean 
hands/ and make little Bretzel (pretzels) from 
it/ push it in a warm oven and bake/ that you do 
not burn it/ but until nicely dry/ like this they 
also become tender and good. You might also take 
cinnamon with it or not. And one calls them 
Precedella (pretzel??).

Gebackens 57.  Take sugar and rosewater/ let it 
boil well/ that does not become too thick/ stir 
grated almonds with the boiled sugar/ and make 
well thick from the fire/ and when you will take 
it full ways/ then take fair white ground sugar a 
spoon full or three/ and sprinkle it on the 
almonds/ take roll them with the hand nicely 
long/ and sprinkle with white sugar under and 
over/ that it doesn't stick to the hands/ and 
when you have rolled it out long/ then make small 
pretzels from it/ push them in a warm oven/ and 
bake them nicely slow/ like this it will be 
beautifully white.  And one calls it precedella 
(pretzel) made from almonds.

Ranvaig