I had previously made blueberry bagels, but since all I did was add dried blueberries to the original recipe I used for making bagels, it didn't really count as part of my 24. But this was a brand new recipe, taken from bakespace.com.
Everything Bagels Recipe
This was not the smoothest baking experience I have had. Nothing went wrong, but it wasn't as easy and straightforward as the previous bagel recipe. Part of the reason may have come from the fact that I doubled the recipe on the site (who wants to go to all the trouble of baking from scratch for only four measly bagels?). Mostly it was just I kept adding and adding flour and the dough still stayed tacky. I mixed for so long and added so much that it started climbing up the dough hook, so I took it out and kneaded and kneaded, adding flour all the time and it still remained a bit sticky.
I eventually gave up and continued with the recipe, and as a result after rising the first and second times, the bagels were all floppy and soft. It made it hard to boil them, since they kept slipping and sliding off of the spatula I used to get them out of the water, and they stretched all over the place. I got through it, and added all the toppings and got them in the oven.
They turned out fine, except I forgot to do the egg wash before adding the toppings, so basically every time you moved the bagel, or even looked at it, bits would fall off, like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. By the time you sliced it, put it in the toaster, took it out of the toaster and put it on a plate, you had about one sesame seed and a slight taste of onion left.
The garlic and onion pieces also went a bit black, so I'm going to cook them further down in the oven next time.
I am getting much, much better at ensuring that the hole remains - it just takes opening up a bit after they've risen each time, before you boil them.
So lessons were learned, and I probably won't use that recipe again. But they still tasted quite nice, which is, of course, the main thing.
Taste scores
Mark: no score yet - our toaster broke before he had the chance to try one
Jessica: 7 (I just love everything bagels)
Ease of preparation: 3
Do it again? Probably not.
Recommend? I still believe everyone should try making bagels, just not this recipe.
4 comments:
wow that recipe sounds hard....
i think i will do the easy one when we try it out....
I'm just glad you had success BEFORE failure, that way you were better able to focus on learning from the problems, since you knew they could/should be solvable!
I know, it's true. It probably would have made a huge difference in my attitude about bagel making if I had done that recipe first. Just as it makes a difference hearing from someone who's done it, to know that it's possible...
I got hold of some malt extract (the ingredient in the first recipe that I always had to substitute something else for) and on Sunday I made the first recipe again, this time fully as described, and they turned out really well. Again, no problems with mixing or anything, and I did most as everything bagels, with two plain and two sesame only. They're really yummy, so I think I'll probably just stick with that recipe!
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