Bagels!

We made bagels yesterday!  They ended up being more work than either of us thought they would be.  I used the recipe from Baking With Julia (which I just got from the library) because it had very detailed descriptions and even photos of how to shape them.  First, I made the dough (a pretty standard bread dough).  Then it had two risings- the second of which was in the fridge.

[T-it was fun to poke]

It got a little overexcited, thanks to the altitude.  Then half of the dough got shaped into bagels.

Once that half was bagel-shaped, they were boiled for a few minutes.

Post boiling:

They got an egg wash and toppings (fried onions, sesame seeds, salt).  After baking, they looked like this.

Here is one of the sliced sesame seed bagels.  They're very tasty, but maybe not worth all of the work.

[T- I found them pretty delicious, especially fresh out of the oven, but it was the most work of anything we've baked so far, I'd say.  Also, so many dishes from the process, many of which were le grodos.  I made a cheesy omelet breakfast sandwich with one, and it was good!  Don't tell Julia though, I didn't use copious amounts of butter for cooking the omelet.  I also didn't manage to make it in 15 seconds and I didn't manage to flip it over solely through one handed pan wrangling.  I used a spatula]