What do you do on a snowy day in Bologna? Today it started to rain but ended up snowing—very nicely.
But I came across an interesting bagel recipe. It seemed simple enough to make the dough. Once the dough was made I could ignore the rest of the instructions as I knew better how to make a bagel, having made thousands of dozens of bagels in my life time, actually since every Saturday in high school I made about 3,000 dozen, including bagels I made on the rest of the week, I probably made close to a million dozen. Anyway, following the recipe, here is how they turned out:
And here I put on some cream cheese and it tasted superb. A little too bread like, so next time i will reduce the rise time. But it tasted like an excellent bagel—a little over malted but that was because the recipe called for sugar instead of malt so I had to guess how much to use.
I can know make my favorite comfort food whenever i want it, that’s nice. a small batch of 8 bagels is ready in about 2 hours.
Now I have to venture out into the snow for smoked salmon…
Hey Jonathan, you will have to do a short class for me on how to make bagels. Sounds delish.
Maybe when one of my kids visit I can make another cooking video
Well done! I hope I can taste them one of these days.
This can definitely be arranged!
How about thin slice mortadella? Did you have to boil first? They look “real”.
They’re not real bagels unless you boil them! I had a slice of smoked salmon. All my italian friends invited I should try the mortadella!
They look awesome.