At 01:09 AM 8/1/01 -0400, Chad Fernandez wrote:
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?
An authentic bagel is boiled before it is baked. It gives it
the right crust and chewiness. Some of the lesser varieties
in the chain bagel shops are simply baked, and aren't quite
the same as the real thing.
- John