Traditional options include pretzel soup from the Palatinate region, a blend of veal stock, chopped vegetables, herbs, wine and cream, and garnished with pretzel croutons. More modern ideas include blitzing day-old pretzels into salty breadcrumbs or coarser chunks that can go into stuffing for festive roasts. Cook them gently in salted boiling water before browning the dumplings in butter, and serve with a creamy mushroom sauce. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data.
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What especially pleased him was that the new hard pretzels also retained their freshness much longer. Another legend has it that the recipe for hard pretzels came from a tramp passing through town who exchanged it for a meal — and from this, sprung the entire industry as we know it today.
Through the years, the pretzel has been associated with many interesting and diverse groups of people. In , a boardwalk vendor in Ocean City, NJ offered cotton candy on pretzel rods. By , total pretzel sales reached million. Since the days of beer gardens and saloons, the pretzel has climbed the ladder of respectability. Today you can buy fresh pretzels at Quality Bakery in their traditional form. They are delicious sliced in half to make a fine sandwich.
Lay down some lettuce first to prevent fillings from falling through the holes. As time passed, pretzels became associated with both Lent and Easter. The bread culture became highly developed because of meatless holidays, and pretzels, made with a simple recipe using only flour and water, could be eaten during Lent, when Christians were forbidden to eat eggs, lard, or dairy products such as milk and butter.
The Easter egg hunt may very well be a descendant of the tradition the Germans had at Easter, and are particularly associated with Lent, fasting, and prayers before Easter. Pretzels were hidden around the farms for the children to find, just as eggs are hidden today. They were then served with two hard-boiled eggs on Good Friday. The pretzel symbolized everlasting life and the two eggs nestled in each large hole represented Easter's rebirth.
A page in the prayer book used by Catharine of Cleves depicts St. Bartholomew surrounded by pretzels which were thought to bring good luck, prosperity and spiritual wholeness. A pretzel known as Brezel in German, sometimes also Brezn or Breze is a type of baked food made from dough in soft and hard varieties and savory or sweet flavors in a unique knot-like shape, that over the centuries has made its way into history books and European culture.
Pretzel baking has most firmly taken root in southern Germany and adjoining Upper German - speaking areas, and pretzels have been an integral part of German baking traditions for centuries. The pretzel has been in use as an emblem of bakers and formerly their guilds in southern German areas since at least the 12th century. In , the Ottoman Turks invaded Vienna by tunneling under the city walls. Pretzel bakers, working through the night, heard the strange noises in the cellars, grabbed every available weapon and killed the Turks.
The city was saved and the grateful emperor awarded the pretzel bakers an honorary coat of arms. It shows a lion holding a shield with a pretzel in the middle. As with the earliest origins of the pretzel, it's arrival in America seems to be a mixture of facts and stories.
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