Pretzel recipe using lye

 It’s well known that bars give free salty snacks to make you drink more alcohol. One of my favourite drink snacks is the pretzel, shaped to represent the crossed arms of children in prayer. I like all pretzels, thin and crispy or fat and soft.  
I remember as a child visiting a German beer garden in Munich, impressed by the sheer quantity of empty ‘steins’, the tall ceramic beer tankards crowded on tables. Some of the gardens are so large, it is hard to make a meeting point with a friend. Part of the appeal of the Munich beer garden or hall, is their egalitarian atmosphere: you will have rich and poor, all ages, all  drinking next to each other. Any decent beer garden worth their salt, will have giant pretzels hanging from hooks, ready to be consumed with a few pints of lager.

Giant soft pretzel recipe