Mix 1st three ingredients and set aside about 5 minutes.
2 Tbsp yeast sprinkles on top of the sugar water
1 Cup brown sugar
3 Cups warm water
Add:
8 Cups flour (aprox.)
(put the first 2 cups into your mixer(Bosch). Pour water mixture all at once into the flour and mix with whisk attachments for 4 minutes. Take out whisk attachments and put in the dough hook. Add the remaining flour gradually, until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl. Check dough it should be soft but not sticky. Add small amounts of flour until it reaches this stage. Knead dough in machine for 5 minutes from this point.
Transfer dough to a large bowl sprayed with cooking spray and let rise until doubled (aprox 1 to 1 1/2 hour).
Break off pieces of dough the size a little bigger than a golf ball and roll out into long strands aprox 16". Twist into a pretzel shape.
Boil:
2 Quarts water
1/4 Cup baking soda
Put pretzel shaped dough into boiling water for 20 seconds on each side. Then place on cookie sheet. You can shake coarse salt sprinkled on the sheets if you like the tradtional pretzel.
Bake:
400 degrees conventional oven for 8 to 10 minutes. It may take a few minutes longer better to have more browned than doughy.
400 degrees convection oven for 4 to 6 minutes.
Cool for 2 to 3 minutes and dip into desired topping.
Topping:
Melted Butter
Pretzel Salt
Parmesan Cheese
Cinnamon/Sugar
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