# Fourth Baking Contest and is Love to Eat Festival#german Lye Bread
1.
Weigh all the ingredients in the bread ingredients except butter and put them into the bucket of the cook machine.
2.
Slowly mix the noodles into a dough.
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Add butter
4.
After the butter has melted, switch to the second gear and knead for about 4 minutes.
5.
Take out the dough, beat it on the panel, knead it into a ball and let it stand for 30 minutes.
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After 30 minutes, the dough has grown slightly.
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Divide the dough into six equal portions and round them. (I doubled it)
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Cover with plastic wrap and allow for another 30 minutes.
9.
Take out a proofed dough and squeeze it to vent the air.
10.
Fold it back from 1/4 and press it firmly.
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Fold another 1/4 and press firmly.
12.
Turn the dough over and fold the remaining part on top.
13.
Roll into a long strip, as shown in the figure above, rub both sides of the long strip and bulge in the middle.
14.
Tie a knot
15.
Put it into the freezer of the refrigerator to freeze until the skin is frozen hard.
16.
Put the baking soda into warm water to melt, put the frozen bread dough into it and soak for 20-30 seconds, remove it and put it in a baking tray lined with tin foil. (This step is best to wear gloves, because the baking soda has Strongly corrosive) Use a sharp blade to make an incision on the top of the bread and sprinkle some sesame seeds as a decoration. Sea salt is even better. Put it in a preheated oven and heat up and down at 200 degrees, and bake for 25 minutes.
