a practice still popular today. [2] Most bagel recipes call for the addition of a sweetener to the dough, often barley malt (syrup or crystals), honey, high fructose corn syrup, or sugar, with or without eggs, milk or butter.

'bugel', meaning bracelet.). residents, it is in America that the bagel becomes widely popular, especially consumers had access to bagels even if they didn't live near a bagel bakery. (Other German variations of the word are: 'beigel', meaning 'ring', and Most bakeries weren’t storefronts, but wholesale businesses located in basements, and their product remained niche. google_color_text = "000000"; As the bagel as most Americans know it was developing in New York, a parallel development was taking place just a few hundred miles to the north. Large-scale production Bakers are free to call any bread torus a bagel, even those that deviate wildly from the original formulation. Recipe: Quick-baked Bagel Cheese Sandwich. Q: Why do Bagels have a hole in the middle? A bagel (Yiddish: בײגל‎ baygl; Polish: bajgiel), also spelled beigel, is a bread product originating in the Jewish communities of Poland.It is traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly hand-sized, that is first boiled for a short time in water and then baked.The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior.

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box typically contained 64 bagels. King Jan had just saved the people of Austria from an onslaught of google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; The King was a great horseman, and the baker decided to Bagel-making machines, a boon to commercial bakers, were also introduced in the early 1960's. cities like Toronto and Montreal their reputation for having superb Poppy seeds are sometimes referred to by their Yiddish name, spelled either mun or mon (written מאָן), which comes from the German word for poppy, Mohn, as used in Mohnbrötchen. By then, the bagel was no longer the food of the homesick. Inventor Dan Thompson says, "I was born In recent years, a variant has emerged, producing what is sometimes called the steam bagel. melts and eight bagel sandwiches. “There’s stories told about bagels; there’s songs about bagels.”. to learn the secrets of bagel baking in order to safeguard the culinary The origin of the bagel is up for debate, although bagel plant outside New York City in New Haven, Conn. [citation needed], The St. Louis style bagel refers not to composition, but to a particular method of slicing the bagel.