The medieval monastery mystery
Bavarian beer gardens and the royal twist
The Pennsylvania Dutch and the hard crunch
A twist around the world
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Bake 'em dry, hear the snap! This Lancaster crunch is built to last!
gertrude Illustrated scenes trace pretzel history from medieval praying monks to Bavarian beer gardens
gertrude Bakers shape dough inside the historic Lititz stone house under warm, classical light.
gertrude Twist and bake dough to discover how a medieval monk's knot became a global snack.
Crunch time: The hard, crunchy pretzel was born by accident when a Pennsylvania baker left soft pretzels in the oven.
A crisp, dry, and baked snack food typically twisted into a knot and sprinkled with coarse salt. In 1861, Julius Sturgis established America's first commercial bakery for these crunchy snacks in Lititz, Pennsylvania.
In what year did Julius Sturgis open the first commercial pretzel bakery in Lititz, Pennsylvania?
Which group of immigrants brought traditional pretzel-making recipes to Pennsylvania in the 1700s?
Which Pennsylvania city became famous as the birthplace of the automatic pretzel-twisting machine in 1935?
How many pretzels could the first automatic twisting machine produce per minute in 1935?
Which US city's residents consume twelve times more pretzels than the national average?
What was the major economic advantage of the hard pretzel over the traditional soft pretzel?