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From Monastery to Mall: The True History of the Pretzel The history and evolution of the pretzel is obscure, with several differing sets of “facts.” Where, when, and why was it invented? Did Viennese pretzel bakers really save Europe from conquest by the Ottoman Empire? How did the hard pretzel come about? We examine the whole matter, explode some myths, and tell you the truth!

by Sotheby West In A.D. 610, a monk at a monastery in northern Italy came up with a great idea for bribing the local children into remembering their religious instruction. He twisted strips of unleavened bread dough into a shape resembling the most common posture of prayer at the time: forearms crossed over the chest. (The reason for this posture was the belief that the center of one's being was the heart, and the heart was where Jesus took up his abode in good Christians.) If the children recited correctly what they were to supposed to recite, they got

According to legend, the pretzel was invented in the kitchen of a medieval Alpine Italian (or French--take your pick) monastery as a reward to children who learned their religious lessons well. The British Museum January 2011

one of these pretiolas, which is Latin for “little reward.” The fact that hunger was common in those days might have had a lot to do with the success of this ploy. (For more on the fuzzy etymology of "pretzel," see the note at the end of this article.)

That's one story. The simple fact that an exact date (A.D. 610) is given is also a hint that it might not be completely true. For one thing, sources citing the date never tell us where it came from. For another, in that time and place, prosaic events such as the invention of a bakery product just weren't recorded. The coronation of kings, the dates of battles, yes; new culinary treats, no.

(So far as we can tell, the A.D. 610 date first appears in The History of Science and Technology: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People Who Made Them from the Dawn of Time to Today, by Bryan Bunch, published in 2004. Where he got that date, we're not sure.)

A more likely scenario is that the monk mentioned was indeed baking what we now call pretzels, and that he did indeed intend it as a reward, but that he didn't invent the treat.

Rather, he was probably following a custom that was already at least 100 Pennsylvania produces 80% of the pretzels manufactured in the United States.

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Cover Illustration An illustration in the Hortus Delicarium (1185) shows Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus (Xerxes the Great) at a meal with a pretzel on the table. Esther and Xerxes lived at least 1,000 years before the pretzel is thought to have been invented.

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years old. This custom was brought on by the Roman Catholic observance of Lent.

During Lent, a 40-day period preceding Easter, Roman Catholics were to abstain from eating meat and all meat-related products such as milk, cheese, and eggs. They were to eat only one meal a day, but snacking was allowed. Since at least sometime before A.D. 500, a pretzel-shaped snack of unleavened bread was one of these snacks. The circa A.D. 500 date is arrived at from the depiction of a pretzel in an illuminated manuscript of that period, the Vergilius Romanus, which is housed in the Vatican library. The date of this manuscript is uncertain, with some scholars opining it was made as early as A.D. 300, and others giving it an upward limit of A.D. 500.

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Europe, probably because of its portability and its shape. One must remember that items with religious significance were important to Roman Catholics of the time. The pretzel's crossed-arms-in-prayer configuration reminded the devout that God knew of their needs and answered prayers. In time, another religious connotation was made: The three holes of a pretzel came to signify the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Time went on, and the pretiola came to be considered a good-luck charm promising prosperity, health, and long life. In fact, German children took to wearing one around the neck at New Year for good luck.

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became heroes, at least in Vienna, Austria, according to one story. As bakers do today, the Viennese pretzel bakers were working in a basement bakery in the wee hours one morning in 1510, getting their wares ready for early-rising citizens.

As they worked, they heard the sounds of digging outside the bakery walls. Since the city was then under siege by the Turks, they rightly assumed their foes were trying to dig their way in. The bakers raised the alarm, and the Ottoman sappers were driven off. Thus ended the siege, as well as the Ottoman Turks’ invasion of Europe, which, if successful, would have made Europe a Muslim territory. In gratitude the Emperor of Austria presented the bakers with a coat of arms featuring the pretzel.

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to think that perhaps bakers throughout the Germany-Austria area had long featured the pretzel as an insignia.

Furthermore, the first Ottoman siege of Vienna was in 1529, not 1510. And at the time, Austria was ruled by an archduke, Ferdinand I of Habsburg, not an emperor. (It's really awful the way facts get in the way of a good story, isn't it?)

But that the pretzel was an important bakery item during the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance is evident in the number of times it is featured in illustrations of bakers.

The romance of the pretzel extends to...well...romance! Some writers would have us believe the pretzel, which resembles a knot, is the source of the term "tying the knot" in marriage. In truth, ceremoniously tying together a bride and groom with knotted cords or sashes or what have you is a custom Stradivari Copies. My husband, an artist and master craftsman, hand carved these violins. He asked me to make sure that, after his passing, they got into the hands of someone who would appreciate them.

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much older than the advent of the pretzel. But the pretzel did come to have a role in weddings. We're told that a stained-glass window in a Berne, Switzerland, cathedral depicts a royal wedding in which the bride and groom hold a pretzel between them. We haven't seen this window, nor the 1614 woodcut that supposedly copies it. (If any of our readers can send us a picture, with source, we'd be immensely grateful.)

There is a good possibility the pretzel was a symbol (as in days gone before) of good luck. The one thing we do know is that brides and grooms often break a pretzel as they would the wishbone from a turkey.

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The first commercial pretzel bakery in the United States was the Sturgis Pretzel House in Lititz, Penn., founded in 1861.

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The world’s largest pretzel (to date) was baked in Jelgava, Latvia, in 2000. It measured 32 feet across. Before that feat, Auntie Annie’s pretzel company of Lake Charles, La., claimed the title with a pretzel that measured 12 feet wide and weighed 431 pounds. And before that, in 1963 Joseph Nacchio of the Federal Pretzel Baking Company baked a pretzel five feet wide that weighed 40 pounds.

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The pretzel worked its way to North America with German immigration in the late 1600s and early 1700s. The Palatine (Pennsylvania Dutch) immigration of 1710-15 to New York and Pennsylvania was the largest wave in this period. This was also, if legend is true, when the hard pretzel came into being.

According to the story, a baker in Pennsylvania sometime in the 1700s left the bakery on an errand.

During his absence, his apprentice fell asleep. Upon awakening, the apprentice couldn't remember the stage at which the pretzels in the oven were in their baking, and added more wood to the oven, overcooking the pretzels. The baker returned and found the pretzels quite a bit crispier than they were supposed to be. After boxing the apprentice's ears, the baker toted the ruined pretzels to the backyard for disposal. On the way, however, he tried one of them, and liked it. He also liked the idea that the “burned” pretzels would keep longer than the

A 1465 illustration by Konzil von Konstanz showing a portable baker's oven. The hausfraus of the day certainly got their bread fresh!

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According to one source, “[t]he average American consumes about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg) of pretzels per year.” “Average” is not defined.

soft variety, and started making crispy pretzels on purpose.

It wasn't until the establishment of a hard-pretzel-only factory in 1861 in Lititz, Penn., that this type of pretzel had a very large market.

Today in the United States, people buy enough pretzels every year to make it the country's secondmost-favorite snack food (potato chips come in first; popcorn, third).

Notes and Additional Information The etymology of "pretzel." As mentioned, "pretiola" or "little reward" has been given as the initial name of the pretzel, and that our current word stems from a corruption of the Latin. Other people suggest that the pretzel was also called "bracellae," Latin for "arms," because of the shape, which

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was supposed to mimic a person in prayer, and that "bracellae" was then corrupted in High German to "bretzel" and then to our current "pretzel." And then we have this snippet of information from a May 8, 2002, article in the Los Angeles Times titled "A Twisted Tale How Pretzels Got Their Name," [I]n German the word is "bretzel," not pretzel. In medieval Old High German, it was even less like pretiola -- it was brezitella.

Linguists think brezitella probably came from the medieval Latin brachiatellum, meaning a little brachiatum, which would be a bread baked in the form of crossed arms.

Not that anybody has found the word "brachiatellum" in any manuscript; the linguists only claim their explanation is less unlikely than the others. Be all that as it may, Germans and their neighbors made 10

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As with all such false stories, this The professor answered "Of one is short on specifics, and if one course". does only a little research, one finds This time the student responded, variations that suit the purposes of the "Again you're wrong, Sir. Darkness person relating the story (for example, does not exist either. Darkness is in another version has the professor fact simply the absence of light. Light stating that since God is evil, then can be studied, darkness can not.

Christianity, not just God, is a myth).

Darkness cannot be broken down. A More to the point, Albert Einstein simple ray of light tears the darkness had by the age of 12 rejected the idea of and illuminates the surface where the a personal God. He wrote: "[T]he word light beam finishes. Dark is a term that God is for me nothing more than the we humans have created to describe expression and product of human what happens when there's lack of weaknesses, the Bible a collection of light." honorable but still primitive legends Finally, the student asked the which are nevertheless pretty childish." professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" The Further, in a 1954 letter he wrote, “It professor replied, "Of course it exists, was, of course, a lie what you read as I mentioned at the beginning, we about my religious convictions, a lie see violations, crimes and violence which is being systematically repeated. anywhere in the world, and those I do not believe in a personal God and I things are evil." have never denied this but have The student responded, "Sir, Evil expressed it clearly. If something is in does not exist. Just as in the previous me which can be called religious then it cases, Evil is a term which man has is the unbounded admiration for the created to describe the result of the structure of the world so far as our absence of God's presence in the science can reveal it." hearts of man."

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PRETZELS

January 2011

Pieter Bruegel's 1559 painting "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" clearly depicts pretzels on the Church side of the fray (lower right).

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A Viipurinrinkeli by Any Other Name In Finland, a pretzel is a viipurinrinkeli; in Czech Republic, a preclík; in Spain, France, and Italy, a pretzel, a bretzel or a brezel; in The Netherlands, a krakeling; in Norway and Denmark, a kringle; in Poland, a precel; in Hungary, a perec; and in Romania, it’s a covrig.

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Pretzels (on table with fish) illustrated in Vergilius Romanus a manuscript from ca.

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Here is another illustration of a portable baker's oven from the Renaissance, source and date unknown.

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