Bagels bagels

Having received a new book at Christmas (How to make Bread by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou), I have been trying out a few new recipes. I've always loved bagels but I was intrigued to read that in order to make them chewy, part of the baking process calls for them to be boiled before baking in the oven. Sounded very interesting.

So this was very much an experiment. He also uses the dried yeast in his recipes that needs to be dissolved in water first. Up until now I have been using the quick dried stuff that you mix straight into your dry flour. Anyway they turned out pretty well for a first attempt, I'll definately be trying them again. My wife gave them and 8 out of 10 which can't be bad!