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🍽️ Homemade Lye Sticks

552 kcal · 55 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg wheat flour (Type 550)
• 260 ml water
• 260 ml milk
• 150 g butter (or margarine)
• 1 packet yeast (fresh, 42 g)
• 2 tsp salt
• 1.5 liters water
• 3 tbsp baking soda (household baking soda)
• coarse salt (pretzel salt)
• cheese (grated)

Instructions

1. 1. Put the flour into a large bowl and sift it there.
2. 2. Mix the salt into the sifted flour.
3. 3. Heat the water and melt the butter in it.
4. 4. Add the cold milk to the lukewarm water and butter mixture.
5. 5. Dissolve the yeast in this liquid.
6. 6. Pour the yeast liquid over the flour mixture.
7. 7. Knead everything into a medium-firm dough.
8. 8. Cover the bowl.
9. 9. Let the dough rise for about 45 minutes until it has doubled in size.
10. 10. Take the finished dough out of the bowl.
11. 11. Shape the dough into a long roll.
12. 12. Cut off 24 equal pieces from the roll.
13. 13. Bring the water for the lye in a pot with at least 20 cm diameter to a boil.
14. 14. Stir the household soda into the boiling water.
15. 15. Watch out, as the mixture foams slightly.
16. 16. Roll out the dough pieces into long shapes.
17. 17. Roll the dough pieces into sticks.
18. 18. Place the finished sticks in pairs into the slightly boiling water.
19. 19. Remove the sticks as soon as they float to the top.
20. 20. This process takes about 5 seconds.
21. 21. Place the sticks on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
22. 22. Repeat the process until all sticks have been in the lye.
23. 23. The quantity fits on 2 normal baking sheets.
24. 24. Sprinkle the sticks with pretzel salt as desired.
25. 25. Cut the salted sticks about 1 cm deep.
26. 26. Alternatively, you can cut the sticks first.
27. 27. Then sprinkle the cut sticks with grated cheese.
28. 28. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees convection.
29. 29. Bake the sheets for about 25 minutes.
30. 30. Place the finished sticks on a rack to cool.
31. 31. For a variation, place about 1 tablespoon of raw ham cubes on one end of the dough.
32. 32. Roll up the dough with the ham.
33. 33. Boil the stick in the lye.
34. 34. Cut down to the ham.
35. 35. Sprinkle the stick with cheese.
36. 36. For children, you can wrap a wiener in the pretzel dough.
37. 37. Roll the dough wider for this.
38. 38. Wrap the wiener in the dough.
39. 39. Wrap the wiener completely.
40. 40. Then boil the sausage rolls in the lye.
41. 41. For parties or the buffet, you can make mini ham cheese lye sticks.
42. 42. This variant takes a bit more work.
43. 43. But they look great.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 552
• Protein: 15 g · Fett/Fat: 22 g · Carbs: 71 g