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bread that got gym-obsessed, boiled before baked, and never skipped a day.
means a dense ring-shaped roll boiled briefly then baked, giving it a chewy crust and dense interior unlike regular bread.
from traced to jewish communities in 17th-century poland, the word likely from yiddish beygl, related to a german word for ring or bracelet; the boiling step was reportedly required by a 1610 krakow ordinance as a gift for women after childbirth.
boil then bakegelatinizes the crust before the oven ever starts.
montreal vs nymontreal ones are boiled in honey water, wood-fired.
lender's freezer pushmade bagels a national grocery item in the 1960s.
for instance
h and h bagels — new york institution, once shipped bagels worldwide from a single upper west side shop.
st-viateur bagel — montreal shop open since 1957, wood-fired ovens running nonstop.
russ and daughters — lower east side, pairing bagels with lox since 1914.