The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-03
TOOthsOme Pretzels.

In one of the daily papers last week
wasan advertisement for "boy to assist
in pretzel bakery" and it caught the eve
of Tribune reporter, who had at several
times in the course of his brief buteventful
life destroyed several good teeth and en-
riched number of dentists by munching
the adamantine pretzel. He had often
wondered, as he plucked loose incisor
from his mouth and cast it in neighbor-
ing cuspidore, how this fruit was manu-
factured, and he resolved to call on the
director of the pretzel mint mentioned at
the end of the advertisement and ask him
how the thing was done.
Accordingly he boarded street car
and alighted at the door Of a pretzel
bakery. A vigorous rattle at the front
door brought young lady out from a
side entrance, and the reporter asked her
where the President of the pretzel bank
| could be found. She said he was in the
shop and indicated his whereabouts with
lily-white fore-finger literally decked
the scribe walked back through
passageway and entered the shop. Its
occupants were one of the proprietOrs and
two assistants, all busily engaged in COM
pounding the deadly figure s.
The reporter told the proprietor what
he wanted to see, and that gentleman
busted the -four from his hands and ex-
pressed his willingness to show the
pretzel-loving public how their favorite
article of diet was worked up. Opening
two huge boxes he showed the dough
from which the deadly article was COM
pounded, stating that it was ordinary
bread dough. 1t looked quite harmless.
| Then he showed some yeast, which, he
said they had made themselves out of
hops and malt Just then one of the as
sistants came up to the box, pulled out
slug of dough, and rolled it out into a
long string. Then he put it into an in
clincd trough, and let it slide down gently
under knife while he chopped off little
pieces as2ut an inch long. When he
finished he took the little pieces one by
one, rolled them out, and twisted them
into pretzel-shape, placing them in order
on q board. Then they were ready for
the fire.
First they are placed in box made
of wire netting, which is set in a kettle
half full of water, and they are boiled
| like doughnuts. They are then taken
out, sprinkled with salt, and put in
huge oven on long wooden shovels, where
they are baked hard, After this process
| they afp tafOWn III boxes ana tne BOXES
are put in the recesses over the oven.
Here the pretzels dry and harden.
"Why do you have to dry themw
asked the reporter of the proprietor.
$50 that they will keep" he answered.
''See here" and he picked up an ordi-
nary looking Erctzel which had not been
dried and brDke it easily, showing liqht,
b:ead-like inside. "They would spoil if
left in this condition"
"Don't you manufacture any of the
large sized pretzels?' asked the reporter,
noticing that all he had seea were small
ones
'No, there is no sale for them. We
only find market for the small ones.
"Have you any idea how many of them
are consumed here?"
81 couldn't begin to tell you, but every
German saloon in the city keeps them"
Glow many do you make"
"Well, we consume twelve barrels of
flour week on them"
Glow do you sell themSa
'By the box, barrel, or pound, and
they lind ready sale. Here. try one,'
and he handed ths ,cepOrter a fresh one,
and bowed him out 81 the shop-CiioagC
Tribune.