what kind of soda for soft pretzels?

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I want to bake (german) pretzels which are made from a simple, poached in hot "lauge"(water with special soda/bicarb and salt) before baking in the oven.
Does anyone know what I can easily get my hands on which would work?

I just use bicarbonate of soda for these (the stuff from the baking aisle) - they are yummy.

thanks it*s on the shopping list.

how much du you use? one teaspoon for 2 litres water ?

Recipe please

make a basic white bread dough from:
500g white bread flour
300ml milk
1teaspoon salt
1tablespoon live active yeast (or 40g fresh yeast)
1teaspoon sugar
40g butter

form brezels and leave to rest

bring about 1-2 litres of water to the boil, add 3 tablespoons of bicarb of soda (careful it fizzes) and cook the brezels in there for about 3 minutes one by one.

place on a baking rack and put into the cold oven.

bake at 220 (conventional oven) for about 20 min or until golden.

slice open and apply lashings of butter

this is more or less how I make them, but the measurements I took from somewhere else (used sachets of bicarb in Germany)...

Thankyou

How many does it make?

How do you 'form' the pretzels?

Sorry for loads of questions, but I've never eaten a pretzel ('cept those crunchy little ones)so I don't know.

about 8 pretzels. form a long "snake" and bring in pretzel form.