1906, Frank Roy Fraprie, “Munich—Auer Dult and Oktoberfest”, inLittle Pilgrimages Among Bavarian Inns: Being an Account of Little Journeys to the Bavarian Highlands and to Various Quaint Inns and Hostelries in and out of the Ancient Towns,[…], Boston, Mass.:L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company,page188:
To the same end, old women tottered through the crowd, bowed down under the weight of heavy baskets of saltedbrezels and hazelnuts, which met ready sale.
The Welcome Party on Tuesday, August 14, with free wine, beer, andbrezels, and the Come-Together Party on Sunday evening with free beer, have been accepted very well.
1988, “Cookies and Candies”, inBaking Cookbook: More Than 150 Tempting Recipes for Creating Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and Pastries with a Guide to Selecting and Using Natural Ingredients, Grains, and Flours (Good Cook’s Library), New York, N.Y.: Crescent Books, by arrangement withOttenheimer Publishers, Inc.,→ISBN,page81:
You can choose between Nut and Almond Cookies, Spicy Slices and Almond Meringue Pyramids, or if your appetite is a bit larger, Ricotta and Apple Pasties with Brazil nuts, and Wheat Dumplings with Mozzarella filling. Then there’s something Christmassy with Cinnamon Stars, HoneyBrezels and Spekulatius.
1999, P. J. Faulks, “Final preparation of Starchy Foods by Cooking”, inThe Amylovores or Starch Eaters, Norwich,→ISBN,page252:
In Germany,brezels have for centuries been a common snack food for eating with beer. Abrezel is made from a thin roll of bread dough which is bent into a U-shape, the arms twisted together and then folded over to make two loops (as of the arms of a child in prayer, and for this reason they were often given to children as a reward.)
2004,Ian Kershaw,Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War[1], London:Penguin Books, published2012,→ISBN:
Relishing every moment, ‘Chips’ [Henry Channon] described the Göring party as ‘fantastic’, with ‘roundabouts, cafés with beer and champagne, peasants dancing and “schuplattling”,[sic] vast women carryingbrezels and beer, a ship, a beerhouse, crowds of gay, laughing people'.
2012, Tony Ayles, “Choosing My Profession”, inThe Eternal Expatriate, Part One, Baltimore, Md.:PublishAmerica,→ISBN,page85:
The oven had to be free from smells before it could be commissioned to bake bread, bread buns,brezels and even meat.
Patisserie tray / For rolls,brezels and small pastries.
2015, Horst H. Geerken, translated by Bill McCann, “Troubled Times, Political Confusion”, inA Gecko for Luck: 18 Years in Indonesia, 2nd edition, BukitCinta,→ISBN,page221:
When we flew back to Jakarta from Germany our cases were full: black bread,brezels, cheese of various degrees of pungency, charcuterie, schnaps, books – they were all there.
