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Date Posted: 15:14:22 06/28/03 Sat
Author: Rev Joe
Subject: Re: bagel baking basics
In reply to: june 's message, "Re: bagel baking basics" on 21:44:11 06/27/03 Fri


>the only part that doesn't make sense is the
>soaking... you mean the dough doesn't dissolve? it
>must have been for such a short time then?
>
>i've made pretzels, but they taste like bread. i
>think it's not enough baking soda...?

I don't know about pretzel ingredients - we just used the bagel dough. Human nature is funny, too, because the pretzels were three times the cost of the bagels, and we didn't have them very often, but could I convince people that the salt bagels were the same thing? No way!

As far as soaking, the dough had to boil for two to three minutes - it depended on how hot the water was to get the yeast to activate. It would actually take quite a long time to get the dough to dissolve in the boiling water - probably part of the reason people call bagels "cement donuts". The really gross thing was when they forgot to add yeast to the dough, the bagels would shrivel and wrinkle, and even though they tasted okay they looked horrible! I would sell a lot of day olds on those days...

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