Monday, March 02, 2009

Auntie Anne's Pretzels

Did you know that Auntie Anne's will teach you all about the soft pretzel? Well, they do and today that's where our Monday Mom's play group went! It was really cool to see a video all about the history of the pretzel. But even better was the dough rolling and lesson on how to "toss" a pretzel.

From The Rankin Family

Here we are rolling out the biggest pretzel any of us had ever seen!

From The Rankin Family

We also got to try our hand at squeezing fresh lemonade. I had no idea the strength required to get just a small but of juice out of a lemon. It took so much strength, that our "teacher" had to help each one of us.

From Andrew Tyndale Rankin

At the end, we each got our own special kid-sized pretzel and lemonade. Thankfully it wasn't one that I rolled. I rolled that dough until it cold roll no more. Seriously, the dough gets stiff the more you handle it! We each got a second portion of dough we rolled so much. But we still got professionally made pretzels at the end of the day. The sure did hit the spot in my "tummy that was growling."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello, little girl. Did you know that Grandma Annie loved Lemonade and pretzels?? She did and she would be so proud of you making both. She liked the Minute Maid Lemonade and would buy it on sale and always have it in the frig during the summer time. You look like you are having fun and I bet you really enjoyed the pretzel and the lemonade when you were done with make them both. Hope you are being a good girl. Easter is coming and, just think, I will get to see you in May.

Love ya,
Auntie Marigene