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New Year Good Luck Pretzel

2/3 cup dry milk 1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 cup lukewarm water
2 cakes yeast (or equivalent in dry yeast)
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
7 - 7 1/2 cup flour
Margarine
Powdered sugar, nuts, cherries, etc.

Mix dry milk, salt, sugar and water.  Stir in mixing bowl.  Stir
in yeast until it dissolves.  Add eggs and shortening and stir in.
Add flour, cup by cup, beating in with mixer on high speed, until
about half the flour is used.  Mix in remaining flour.  Let rise
until double.  Punch down and let rise again. (If in haste you can
skip rising twice.)  Take half of dough and roll it to form a long
strip and shape into a pretzel, twisting once at the center.  Repeat
remaining half.  Bake about 20 minutes at 350 degrees.  Remove from
oven and brush with margarine.  Frost while still warm with a thin
powdered sugar and water frosting.  Sprinkle with chopped nuts or
decorate with candied cherries, etc, if desired.  

Makes 16 servings and can be frozen.

Printable version: new-year-preztel.txt.