Bagelmania is here courtesy of the Daring Bakers(Freya and Jenny to be exact). This month's challenge was to make, as the recipe says, Real Honest Purist's Bagels. Now it has been a few years since I made bagels, and it had been a really long time since I made plain bagels. I like most people buy their bagels. But it is fun to do and if you have never made them before it is definitely something you should add to your list of things to learn to do. One thing many of the daring bakers learned during this task was that though you think you don't need anymore flour, you are to use all of the flour! For me, my quirks were that I only had one sink(a rebel no doubt) while the rest just floated. They should sink and then float...gracefully according to the recipe. Well there was nothing graceful about how my one bagel floated to the top. My other problem was that I did this rushed and so I did not really pay attention to the fact that during half proofing they pretty much whole proofed … [Read more...]