brezel

plural brezels

1. rareRare form of pretzel.

   The oven had to be free from smells before it could be commissioned to bake bread, bread buns, brezels and even meat.

   2012, Tony Ayles, “Choosing My Profession”, in The Eternal Expatriate, Part One, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 85

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   To the same end, old women tottered through the crowd, bowed down under the weight of heavy baskets of salted brezels and hazelnuts, which met ready sale.

   1906, Frank Roy Fraprie, “Munich—Auer Dult and Oktoberfest”, in Little Pilgrimages Among Bavarian Inns: Being an Account of Little Journeys to the Bavarian Highlands and to Various Quaint Inns and Hostelries in and out of the Ancient Towns, […], Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, page 188

   The Welcome Party on Tuesday, August 14, with free wine, beer, and brezels, and the Come-Together Party on Sunday evening with free beer, have been accepted very well.

   1984, Physica B + C, volume 126, Amsterdam: North-Holland Physics Publishing, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., page xiv

   You can choose between Nut and Almond Cookies, Spicy Slices and Almond Meringue Pyramids, or if your appetite is a bit larger, Ricotta and Apple Pasties with Brazil nuts, and Wheat Dumplings with Mozzarella filling. Then there’s something Christmassy with Cinnamon Stars, Honey Brezels and Spekulatius.

   1988, “Cookies and Candies”, in Baking Cookbook: More Than 150 Tempting Recipes for Creating Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and Pastries with a Guide to Selecting and Using Natural Ingredients, Grains, and Flours (Good Cook’s Library), New York, N.Y.: Crescent Books, by arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 81

   In Germany, brezels have for centuries been a common snack food for eating with beer. A brezel is made from a thin roll of bread dough which is bent into a U-shape, the arms twisted together and then folded over to make two loops (as of the arms of a child in prayer, and for this reason they were often given to children as a reward.)

   1999, P. J. Faulks, “Final preparation of Starchy Foods by Cooking”, in The Amylovores or Starch Eaters, Norwich, →ISBN, page 252

   Relishing every moment, ‘Chips’ [Henry Channon] described the Göring party as ‘fantastic’, with ‘roundabouts, cafés with beer and champagne, peasants dancing and “schuplattling”,^([sic]) vast women carrying brezels and beer, a ship, a beerhouse, crowds of gay, laughing people'.

   2004, Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War, London: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN