Homemade Bagels!
| February 1, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen |
Every time Joshua or I makes something homemade (usually Joshua) that I’ve only ever purchased from elsewhere, I am amazed. Every time we go shopping, I buy bagels. I really like having them for breakfast and sometimes as snacks. This time when I went to reach for them, Joshua stopped me and said this would be the week we made them at home.
I can’t tell you much about the recipe. Joshua followed a recipe from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice
First, after the bread was made into its little balls…
It got rolled into snakes…
Then shaped into rings…
Then, after it’s left to puff up a bit in the fridge…
The rings go into a pot of boiling water for a minute on one side…
Then flipped for a minute on the other side…
They all go on baking sheets and into the oven…
And then (magically!) bagels appear!
Real live, just-as-expected bagels! Yummy!
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Cool – those look like they came out great! Have you made them again since? This post immediately reminds me of my Semester at Sea during college; on that trip I made bagels for breakfast with the steward. It was an ambitious project that involved starting at 11PM the night before, but it was a lot of fun and they came out quite well considering the fact we had to cook them in a very cranky diesel oven with big hot spots and cold spots we had to try to compensate for. Anyhow, this post, plus Joshua’s posts on baking bread has me thinking it’s time for me to get into bread baking. My mom baked bread roughly twice a week throughout her adult life, and I really miss her bread since she’s gone, and perhaps even more I miss the smell of baking bread in the house. Have a gerat Thanksgiving weekend1
Wow, cooking in an oven with hot and cold spots sounds like a big challenge! I’ve made bagels one other time since this post, but I did it all on my own without Joshua’s help. This means they came out less-than-perfect for entirely unknown reasons. He’s really the baker around here!