A Payment A Day - Part 8!

Silaqui

First of all...
German Style Pretzels! (sorry for american 'cup' measurements - I modified the recipe from my german grandma ages ago and thats how it was - I just used the cup from my bread machine)

1 1/4 cups of warm water
3 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp dried active yeast

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl, then add water and mix to a soft dough. Knead it till soft and pliable and rise for about an hour in a warm place. (could be left overnight if you want, it doesn't really matter if you do it for longer)
(Can also cheat and do on the dough setting of a bread maker!)

Split the dough up into sections and roll out to long 'sausages' about the thickness of your index finger, then shape into pretzels. Don't forget the twist in the middle to make them authentic! :rotfl:

This is the bit that really makes a difference - You need to get some water to a rolling boil, and add bicarbonate of soda*** (about 1 tbsp per cup of water used). Use a slotted spoon/spatula, and dip the shaped pretzel into the boiling mixture for about 30 seconds. The dough will go sort of yellowish and it might fizz a bit.

Then place onto a baking tray that has been covered with baking parchment. Bake for about 15 minutes or untill it has gone dark golden brown.

Beautiful!!


*** The 'real' way of doing this is to use proper lye (sodium hydroxide) and that way you don't have to boil to water, just dip it into the solution, but you need the food grade stuff which is a faff to get for the occasional batch so bicarb works just as well!

x

Silaqui

Feel free to experiment with the above recipe and let me know if you get better results!!

No more additional pads today Angelic but I have tried to be good on the eating front - breakfast was a bowl of special k, lunch was one of my pretzel cobs with butter, and a couple of crackers with cheese. I had a slice of carrot cake that my mum baked me in the afternoon, and have just had 2 sausages with fried up leftover potatoes and onions for tea.

I'm in a bit of a pig out mood though could quite happily manage a mcflurry or 2 :rotfl:

I have also done a load of listing on ebay and have a couple of watchers already so that is good!

xx

SarahNeedle1872

Random PAD (as I will be a random PADer until my DMP is sorted!) of £2.10

Sx

LondonAndy

Hello folks,

Sorry I missed a few days - hopefully the internet troubles are sorted chez London Andy....

My PADs total from Weds- today is £1,119.07 - which was £600 to the ISA to kickstart my "save up to pay off loan" account and the rest to Barclaycardo - big one this weekend as just got paid.

Hope everyone had a super weekend.

angelicmary85

Evening Padders!

Sorry for the late post

The total for July 24th was £199.29!
Special mention of the day goes to Saorsie! Well Done!

angelicmary85

LondonAndy wrote: »

£1,119.07

:iloveyou:

angelicmary85

Pad of £15.00!

Food diary -

Breakfast - 2 slices of toast with low fat cheese spread (no butter/marg)

Got to work and was given a jam doughnut

Lunch - Heaps of salad, some low fat coleslaw, roll

Tea - Gammon and lots of veg

I've also had a bit of shortbread (how patriotic of me ) a random slice of ham and a banana

Purpleclutterbuck

Erm....:think: Am I on the right thread?
What have I missed? - so sorry folks but I've had no spare money to even pad a penny this week and I feel really guilty about it and then I've started to read food diaries etc how did you know that I had to lose weight? (and lots of it )
Please could some nice padder explain what I've missed?
I am in the process of doing a 0% balance transfer hopefully on my dark evil cr*pital one card (30% rate:eek:) so at least I might be able to make some dent in the debts -so fingers crossed xxx
Total pad £105
(£100 to the scallyifax and £2 to the stove and £3 to xmas)
Happy Padding next week XX

no_problem

Hi PAD of 23p please to my mAdditions tin.

I've just found a way of converting some of your small change to nice shiny pound coins without having to take a maximum of 5 bags to the bank. If you have an unused pound coin in your wallet or purse, take out the equivalent from your tin, pot, box whatever and replace with the pound coin. Then go to one of the supermarkets that have self-serve machines buy something you 'need' that's of a value you can buy using your coins and merrily insert all your small change you want converting.

Et voila!

I find it very therapeutic.

Boobylou

Morning all,

My usual £1 please.

Have a good Monday everyone (if thats even possible!)

Shred should be turning up today fingers crossed, yikes!