"52 Breads in 2013" - #3 Pretzels

“52 Breads in 2013” – #3 Pretzels {Guest Blogger}

January 21, 2013 by · Leave a Comment

Please join me in giving a warm Canadian welcome to “Life without Lemons”. Originally hailing from the UK and now living in Canada, we are very excited to announce that, Elyse with her fabulous “52 Breads in 2013” will be our weekly guest blogger. If you are looking for some fabulous bread recipes, drop by each week and see what delicious bread Elyse has baked in her kitchen.

A life without lemons is like swimming in the nude. You can do it, but it just feels wrong.

A Life Without Lemons is my little blog about food, family and an ongoing love affair with gin and tonic. I am a wife, mother of two lovely (loud, messy, crazy) boys, trained butcher and passionate cook of all things tasty. I moved from rainy England to snowy Canada in 2011 and planned to make friends and influence people with food and gin.

In 2013 I have embarked on a baking mission to make 52 different breads. All of the recipes are from one book- Women’s Institute: Bread. I have no special tools or fancy equipment. Just me, my kitchen and a pre heated oven.

Why not come along for the ride and make some bread……….

I am happy to admit that I often bribe my children to come shopping with me. Food shopping is as dull as dishwater for kids and a little treat can often sweeten the deal to sit nicely in the trolley. In the UK the treat my eldest used to ask for was a large, salt topped, soft pretzel- and very good they were too! He asked me to replicate them in my bread baking project and I was more than happy to oblige!

If you plan to make these for kids you should also read the children’s book Walter the Baker by Eric Carle. Walter is challenged to make bread out of one piece of dough that the sun can shine through three times or he must leave his home, and so the first pretzel was created.

“52 Breads in 2013”

#3 Pretzels {RECIPE}

TASTE TEST: The kids dunked the pretzels into homemade hummus. The pretzels got a huge thumbs up and I plan to make some more very soon for school lunch kits.