Back in the shutdown days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I tried making homemade pretzels, which was not a bad little experiment. As we came into National Bagel Day on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday last Monday, I figured it was time to also give bagels a go as well. And man-o-man, were they fantastic!
For a first-timer, expectations were far exceeded. A spongy light-enough tender interior, and a soft-but-stretchy outer crust with perfect chew, and slathered with another new recipe—for honey-walnut cream cheese—this was one amazing mid-day snack.
Perhaps that exterior really did benefit from adding barley malt to the boiling water bath that preceded the oven bake.
The small threat of winter weather never really materialized, even though there was a brief cascade of scattered lazy-dropping snow flakes, and a few instances of very short-lived sleet shows, and light bouts of minimal rain. The kitchen time with the bagel project and the miserable grey and cold of that day made Fire No. 91 an easy move to make.
"New York-Style Bagel Recipe," from Kamran Siddiqi of SophisticatedGourmet.com. [Published 12 October 2009]
"Panera Bread Copycat Honey Walnut Cream Cheese," from Stephanie Manley of CopyKat.com. [Published 26 October 2023]
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