Whats a boiled bagel? What I think of being a bagel is
a round bready
thing... like a donut, but made of bread not cake. How would you boil
that?
What makes a bagel a bagel instead of bread is that after the dough rises
the first time its formed into donut shapes and dropped into boiling water
to kill the yeast so it doesn't rise anymore. The reference to a boiled
bagel I think suggests making a bagel in some less orthodox fashion (how I
don't know). After the boiling a bagel is still baked AFAIK.