The Basic Bagel

Ingredients

2 c warm water
115 def
2 packages dry yeast
3 tb sugar
3 ts salt
5 3/4 cup all purpose flour
3 qt water with
1 tbl sugar
1 egg yolk with
1 tbl
4 cup flour
1 1/4 cups more flour to make a stiff dough
12 equal
3 1/2 across
4 at a time
400 def oven for about
3 tbl honey instead
2 cups wheat
1/2 cup wheat germ
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour before beating dough

Instructions

mix in about 1 1/2 cups more all-purpose flour, knead, and finish as directed. PUMPERNICKEL BAGELS *+* Follow basic recipe, omitting sugar; instead use 3 Tbl dark molasses. In place of the flour use 2 cups each rye and whole wheat and about 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour. Add all the rye and 1 cup each of the whole wheat and all-purpose before beating dough. Then add remaining 1 cup of whole wheat and about 3/4 cup more all-purpose flour, knead, and finish as directed. MORE BAGEL VARIETY ----+-----+------Try adding 1/2 cup instant toasted onion to the whole wheat or basic bagels; add it to the yeast mixture along with the sugar and salt. Or sprinkle 1/2 tsp poppy or sesame seed or 1/4 tsp coarse salt on each glazed bagel before baking. Or add 1 Tbl caraway seed to pumpernickel bagels, then sprinkle each glazed bagel with 1/2 tsp more caraway seed before baking.