What to do with leftover brine in the pickle jar? Make pretzels.
The recipe calls for 1¼ cups warm, strained pickle juice.
The pretzel dough is rolled out into thin strips.
Pressing down the pretzel ends where they cross over the bottom loop of the pretzel holds it together.
Christine Burns Rudalevige adds barley malt syrup to the pot before cooking the pretzels.
The dough is dropped into boiling water with barley malt syrup.
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