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Contents:
  Brezel-recipe ("T. Rohner")


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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:16:46 +0200
From: "T. Rohner" <t.rohner at bluewin.ch>
Subject: Brezel-recipe

  Hello Phillip

here you have a plain brezel recipe. I guess you can convert the metric 
measurements.

500g    flour    i realized, that a mixture of 75% wheat and 25% spelt 
flour gives the best results, but you can take bread flour or all 
purpose flour as well.
350ml   milk   don't take low fat milk, because you want some fat. You 
could also take water and add some butter.
15g      salt
7g        active dry yeast (one packet around here) you could also try 
20-30g thick ale yeast slurry

some coarse salt for sprinkling


for the lye:

1.5l    water
30g    baking soda   it's much less dangerous to use baking soda, 
instead of caustic soda.


mix together and knead well, 12 minutes by hand, 6 minutes with the 
Kitchenaid or Kenwood, or put it into your breadmaker with the pizza 
dough program
if you feel the dough is too sticky and wet while kneading, add some 
flour and knead some more. The dough should be soft, but not too tacky.
after the dough has risen to double,(45-90min) start to heat the water 
and soda to a boil. Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius.
Take the dough and roll strands. Depending on the size you want, this 
recipe should yield around 10 smaller brezeln.
After forming, the lye should have been boiling for a couple of minutes. 
Then submerge the brezeln for 20-30 seconds in the boiling lye and put 
them on a non stick cookie-sheet.
Sprinkle them with coarse salt and shove them into the oven.
Baking will take around 20 minutes for thicker strands or 15 for thinner 
strands. If they brown too early, lower the temperature.

For using spent grain, i have a spent grain recipe here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Spent-Grain-Sesame-Bread/

On this recipe, i wouldn't take more than a 1/4 cup for a start. Be sure 
to roast and cut them up like in the instructable mentioned above.
You should also soak them for a couple of hours in the measured baking 
liquid, than add it to the other dry ingredients to mix and knead.

Happy baking

Thomas




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