Pretzel Rolls (a.k.a. Laugen Broetchen)

[dodo]

sorry but its brotchen not broetchen. brot is bread, chen means small version of, eg katze is a cat, katzen is cats, and katzchen is kitten , so brotchen it is. i live her and learnign german and just plain showing off hehheheh

i sure hope these taste as good as the ones we get in the shops here, we fight tooth and nail to get vegan ones sometimes, only a couple of the bakers do them and everyone else looks at you like youve pulled their tooth or summit when you ask them to check for non vegan ingrediants hehehe

i shall be trying them very very soon, and may share some....but i doubt it *shifty eyes*

[gravyboat]

I had trouble following the recipe, but I must have done ok because these were REALLY good! Next time I'll halve the ingredients because it makes a lot.

[KissMyShades]

can someone who's made this recipe post a picture? it would be nice to have a visual of what these will look like in their final form...

[gravyboat]

I just broke my digi cam so I can't post a pic, but they look (and taste) just how you'd think... like rolls made from the pretzels you get at the ballgame. They're super good served heated with butter. Give them a try!

[pineappleprincess]

These were really good, although fore me they required waaaaaaay more flour than the recipe suggested. I just kept adding more (probably about 3 cups more) until they looked and acted like bread dough, though, and then they turned out great.

[Heidi3]

sorry but its brotchen not broetchen. brot is bread, chen means small version of, eg katze is a cat, katzen is cats, and katzchen is kitten , so brotchen it is. i live her and learnign german and just plain showing off hehheheh

sorry but it is broetchen. which means brötchen. when you add chen and you have a o,a,u many times you add umlaut.

[tweedle dumpling]

These were pretty easy to make, and tasted pretty good, although not very pretzel-y (although that was probably my fault). I had never made any pretzel type thing before, so I made a mistake: the saucepan I used for the baking soda bath must have been too big because the water wasn't very deep and didn't cover the rolls entirely. Unfortunately when I realized this it was too late to fix it, and the rolls when baked weren't evenly coated. My fault, though! Just don't want anyone else to make the same mistake I did. I'll definitely make this recipe again and see how they turn out after what I've learned.

[gardengirl]

Before baking can you freeze these for future use?  Not sure if I want 16 pretzels at once because I know I will eat them all, but would like to have some to have to snacks later on.

[Vexierspiegel]

sorry but its brotchen not broetchen. brot is bread, chen means small version of, eg katze is a cat, katzen is cats, and katzchen is kitten , so brotchen it is. i live her and learnign german and just plain showing off hehheheh

As Hiedi3 said, brötchen is correct. Additionally, the diminutive form of cat (same at "kitten") is actually kätzchen. Often you get a vowel shift.

[humboldt_honey]

I love kneadless bread recipes.  

I boiled double the amount of water and baking soda because I wanted to ensure that the dough would be fully immersed, but the rolls float so it's unnecessary to double the water and baking soda.  I put the dough in the water on one side for 30 seconds and then flipped it to the other side for an additional 30 seconds.  The water was only simmering for the first couple and by the fourth, it wasn't simmering at all.  I turned the heat up and those that I boiled for a minute came out perfectly.  I tried to re-boil the first four, but that didn't work out so well.  They never had the same firmness going into the oven as the final rolls and a couple of the rolls from the first four came out of the oven dough-y while the others were pretzel-y.  

The rolls that turned out correctly were great.  They were both chewy and soft while having a nice flavor and salt.  I love salt.  There are biscuits that need something extra, like "butter" to help them out.  These don't need anything.  They are really good on their own.  Plus, they look impressive.

I have mini loaf pans.  Next I'm going to try this bread by putting a small amount in each pan to make chewy hoagie sandwich bread.

[mimimaoam]

sorry but its brotchen not broetchen. brot is bread, chen means small version of, eg katze is a cat, katzen is cats, and katzchen is kitten , so brotchen it is. i live her and learnign german and just plain showing off hehheheh

i sure hope these taste as good as the ones we get in the shops here, we fight tooth and nail to get vegan ones sometimes, only a couple of the bakers do them and everyone else looks at you like youve pulled their tooth or summit when you ask them to check for non vegan ingrediants hehehe

i shall be trying them very very soon, and may share some....but i doubt it *shifty eyes*

'Fraid so Dodo. Putting an 'e' after the vowel which needs the vowel shift is just another way of writing it with an umlaut on, so those without an umlaut function on their keyboards can write gramatically correct german.