July kitchen challenge results: bagels

Everybody loves bagels. You guys are no exception, making this month's challenge the most popular one yet! It's a good thing, too, I was worried you guys would never forgive me for the whole mozzarella thing. But seriously, how can you not love bagels? Sesame seed or poppy seed or everything, smothered with cream cheese and lox or fried eggs or peanut butter or jam. When you make them from scratch you can truly make them any way you like. I was pleasantly surprised with how easy these were. I splurged on some good yeast, and borrowed some of Taylor's barley malt syrup (from brewing). This addition does double duty, adding a nice extra touch of sweetness to the bagels as well as helping to condition the dough. Seeing as we couldn't agree on what to top them with, we went with a variety of poppy, sesame, and caraway seeds as well as a couple everything bagels per Taylor's request. The final product was maybe a little bit flat, perhaps (despite them passing the "float test" with flying
0
19
0
Comments