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Connor Claussen mixes three types of flour, dry yeast, sea salt and filtered water.
He divides the dough into equal parts, rolls it into logs, forms each into a distinctive pretzel shape, scores the tops, dips them in lye and puts them in the oven to bake.
This Swabian German style pretzel is the signature item at Claussen Cafehaus in Bloomfield. Swabia is a region in Southwestern Germany.
The shop opened in March.
Claussen’s father Axel was born in Germany and started Axel’s Pretzels in 2013. Those pretzels are sold via wholesale. The elder Claussen was craving a German pretzel. He started making them in the family’s Highland Park kitchen. He brought them to picnics and parties and eventually delivered them to local coffee shops and the nearby Bryant Street Market in Highland Park.