Recipes

Easy Homemade Bagels

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Here is a recipe for some easy homemade bagels, I had made some simple farm cheese and had some whey left over, so I decided to put it to use. So I grabbed some bread flour, sugar, salt, yeast, a egg and the rest of the sesame seeds I haven’t toasted yet

I measured out 4 cups of flour and dumped that into a mixing bowl with a tablespoon of salt

I warmed up 1 3/4 cup of whey

and mixed in 1 tablespoon of yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar

I let it set for 5-10 minutes to give the yeast time to activate

and mixed it in with the flour and salt

I floured up my cutting board and dumped the dough out

I spent the next 10 minutes kneading the bread,

I lightly oiled the mixing bowl and dumped the dough into it

since I had just finished making some cheese, I decided to use the hot water to my advantage and use it to proof my dough, so I set the bowl on the pot

and covered it with a towel

after about a hour the dough had more than doubled in size

so I floured up the cutting board again and dumped the dough out

and cut it in half

then quarters

then the quarters into thirds

I rolled the dough up into balls and pinched the bottoms

I covered with a towel and let it rest for 30 minutes

there are 2 different methods for forming the bagels, one is to roll the dough out into log and connecting the ends to form a ring, I prefer the simpler method of just sticking your finger into the dough and stretching it out,