Pretzel with honey dijon
Bread Maker Extraordinaire
Laura is an ambitious bread maker. She makes a lot of the bread that we eat and has never shied away from trying new recipes. She has not only made all types of regular bread for us, including white, wheat and oatmeal breads, but she has also made rolls, biscuits, pitas, tortillas, naan, rotis, bagels, English muffins, crackers, pizza dough, French and Italian loaves, baguettes and pretzels. As long as I keep bringing home flour and yeast she keeps making fresh bread.Mall Pretzel Recipe
The pretzels she's made in the past, while okay, tended to be a bit on the tough side. Today, though, she made soft, chewy delicious pretzels that rivaled any I've had at Mr. Pretzel or anywhere else. In fact, the recipe is called "Mall Pretzels". Soooo effing good. So, I think this pretzel recipe is definitely a keeper. I highly recommend it.Mall Pretzel Recipe
To make them vegan you need to substitute the butter for a non-dairy margarine and use a vegan sugar as well. To be perfectly honest we used brown sugar as the recipe calls for and brown sugar isn't considered to be vegan. It's not an animal product itself but is sifted through bone char. We just happen to have some left in our pantry to be used, and I'm not sure our vegan-ism is going to be that strict.
Honey Dijon, Please!
Of course we ate them hot, fresh out of oven. They were still steaming as we pulled them apart. To serve with them, she mixed dijon mustard with honey, which is always my choice of dip at Mr. Pretzel. However, honey isn't vegan either. It's not made from creatures, but is made by creatures, and essentially we're stealing honey that bees make for themselves, just as people steal eggs from chickens. Maybe by eating it we can't really call ourselves vegans. But, where we are now is a place where we are making more effort toward that end. And every step makes me feel better about my choices!
Pretzel, honey & dijon
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