Rainy Day Sandwhich

It is Sunday afternoon and raining in DC. What better to do than bake bread and watch a movie. The bread Pretzel the Movie “The Young Victoria.”

Pretzel Bread: (got this recipe from cooks.com)
1 pkg. yeast
1 c. warm water
1 tbsp. melted butter
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 c. flour 
Egg (to brush)

Put yeast and warm water in a bowl. Stir until yeast dissolves. Add all other ingredients. Knead dough until smooth (about 5 minutes). Cover and place in a warm place (200 degree oven) to rise until doubled in size.

Divide dough - 6 or 7 pieces for pretzels - 3 pieces for mini loaves. Shape each piece. Brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle with coarse salt if desired. Place on greased cookie sheet or in greased mini loaf pans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes for pretzels; at 400 degrees for 30 or 40 minutes for bread. Brush bread with butter immediately after baking to avoid hardened crust.

Dough ready to go into the oven to be proofed.

Dough after rising in a 200º oven for about an hour.

Egged, Salted and ready to go in the oven.

Yum. My apartment smelled so good while these were baking. 

Black forest ham and Havarti cheese

I made a caprese salad to go along with my sandwich.