Salty pretzels
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Any yeast dough baking is about home and childhood for me. Statisticaly our moms and nans used to boil potatoes much more often then buns, but it’s buns what I remember. Today when I bake, my thoughts go back to sweet and cosy childhood near the warm oven. Also I create the very same image of comfort and home for my kids. It’s pure happiness to see them jumbling around the oven, spying through the glass and shouting “Hooray! Buns!”
Today’s recipe is not just buns, but “the buns through which you can see the sun three times” - this particular criteria should had have been met according to the legend of inventing pretzels. Pretzels can be sweet or salty.
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