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Directions:Combine all the ingredients in a bowl. You want to incorporate all the flour, but your dough will be stiff. Only add additional water as needed until the flour is incorporated. About 2 minutes in a mixer. Rest for 20 minutes. Knead the dough for ten minutes, or in a mixer on medium for 8 min, until it is smooth. My general tactic for by hand kneading is I use my knuckles to punch the dough out, fold it in half and rotate 90 degrees. Let rise for an hour. Cut the dough into 8 balls and let it sit for about 15 minutes. While this is happening, get a large pot of water boiling (enough so that the bagels won’t touch the bottom while being boiled~ about 1 gallon.). You may want to do this even sooner depending on how big a pot you are using. Take each dough ball and roll it into a foot long snake using your hands. Keeping your hand in the middle of the dough snake and use your other hand to bring the two ends together such that the dough is fully wrapped around your hand. Rotate the dough around so that the part where the two ends come together is under your palm. Press down to make the ends come together. (If this doesn’t work, you can also flatten one end, place the other end in it, and then wrap the dough around it to encase one end of the dough in the other. Or make a ball, flatten it and press a flour coated finger through the midle and stretch the ring to have a 1/3 of the diameter the hole.
You should now have eight balls of dough with a circle in them. Let them rest for about 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 425 while you wait, and grease a cookie sheet with vegetable oil so that the bagels don’t stick to it.
Once your water is at a persistent boil, place a few bagels in the water (you don’t want them crowded). Boil on each side for about 60 sec
Take the bagels out of the water (Use a spatula, they will be hot.) If you are making poppy seed, sesame seed or any other type, sprinkle some onto the bagel on each side. Alternatively, you can lay some on a plate and press the bagel into it. Once all the bagels have been boiled, place them on the cookie sheet and bake for 20 min. If your bagels are too puffy after the first side cooks, flip them over so that the cooked side is pointing up, and flatten them using the head of a spatula. |
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