Our first efforts at soft pretzels.

 Two of the nicer ones.

Our unbromated flour, bread machine dough soft pretzels came out well enough for a first trial.  We shaped the dough made with the dough setting.  They rose nicely as they baked, so we can see that to get a real pretzel form, we have to leave a lot of space between the pretzel loops.

This only used 1 1/2 teaspoons of yeast, whereas a packet of yeast contains 2 1/4 teaspoons of yeast, so we could probably increase the amount of all other ingredients by 50%.  That would remain within the machine flour limit of 4 cups of flour.

The pretzels  were very tasty, served with garlic butter, and Parmesan cheese, and were slightly crunchy.

We generally eat at home for weight and health reasons, so these may be healthier than purchased ones.  Besides that, it was a meatless meal for us.

My better half says it is bread!  Give us this day our daily bread, in this case pretzels!