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      Title: New Year's Pretzels
 Categories: Snack, German
      Yield: 2 Portionen
 
      2 c  Milk
    1/2 c  Butter Or Margarine
      2 pk Yeast, Active, Dry
      2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Sugar
      7 c  Flour, Unbleached
      2 lg Eggs
      1 c  Confectioners' Sugar
           Water
      1 ts Vanilla Extract
    1/4 c  Almonds, Chopped
 
  Heat  milk  and  butter until very warm (120-130 degrees F.).    Mix
  yeast, salt,  sugar,  and  1 cup flour.  Slowly beat into warm milk.
   Beat  for 2 minutes.   Add eggs and 1 cup of flour.  Beat for an
  additional  2 minutes. Add  enough  flour to form a soft dough. Knead
  until smooth  and elastic, about  5 minutes.  Place dough in a
  greased bowl. Let rise in a warm place until  doubled in bulk, about
  1 hour. Punch dough down and let  rise again until  doubled.  (1 hour
  more). Divide dough in half. Shape  pretzel as follows: Roll dough
  into a rope about 30 inches long and 1 1/2  inches in diameter. Cross
  the ends leaving a large loop in the center. Flip loop back onto
  crossed ends to form a pretzel. Repeat with remaining dough. Place
  pretzels on greased baking sheets. Let rise 15 minutes more. Bake at
  375 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.  Cool on
  wire racks. Mix confectioners' sugar, water and vanilla to form a
  thin icing. Spread icing on pretzels and sprinkle with chopped
  almonds. Makes  2 large pretzels.
 
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