AUNTIE EMS RECIPES

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain; transfer to a large bowl and mash.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking dish.
• Mix brown sugar and flour together in another bowl. Stir in 1 1/2 sticks melted butter, a little at a time, until incorporated. Stir in pecans.
• Mix mashed sweet potatoes, remaining butter, white sugar, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract together. Spread sweet potato mixture into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle with brown sugar topping.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
• Add sugar, salt and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
• Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
• While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 tbsp baking soda.
• Be certain to stir often.
• After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
• Dip pretzel in soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
• Allow pretzels to rise again.
• Bake in oven at 450 for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter.
• Toppings: After you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
• Or for Auntie Anne's famous Cinnamon Sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another shallow bowl make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
• Dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously.
• Then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.
• Notes: The longer and thinner you can make the dough rope, the more like Auntie Anne's they will be.