Bavarian Pretzel Bread With Mustard Butter

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (16 ounce) can pillsbury refrigerated french bread dough (or homemade)
• 3/4 cup baking soda
• 2 tablespoons coarse salt (kosher or pretzel salt)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons spicy prepared mustard
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 egg yolk

Recipe

• 1 cut dough in half and roll onto two smooth logs. or form your own dough into logs about the size of a hoagie roll.
• 2 preheat oven to 450 degrees f.
• 3 put 10 cups of water into a large pan. add baking soda and heat to barely boiling making sure that the baking soda is dissolved.
• 4 lower one loaf at a time into the water. let simmer for 30 seconds, then turn the bread over to let it simmer for 30 seconds on the other side.
• 5 remove bread to a greased cookie sheet and repeat with the remaining dough.
• 6 mix together egg yolk and 1 tablespoon water. brush loaves evenly with a pastry brush. sprinkle tops with salt.
• 7 bake until loaves are a deep brown and sound hollow when thumped.
• 8 remove breads to a wire rack to cool.
• 9 mix together the butter, mustard and honey. serve with the bread.
• 10 you can also make homemade mall style soft pretzels the same way. just use refrigerated bread stick dough, roll into ropes and shape into pretzel shapes.