I've only ever learned to make plain bagels, and I want to branch out into onion (& maybe garlic) ones. I'm wondering a few things:

Hi all -

I'm thinking of trying some bagels this week-end. Here in Omaha our local bagel baker, The Bagel Bin, makes an "everything" bagel with all the toppings. I know there is sesame seed, poppy seed, coarse seal salt and some type of onion and garlic(?) maybe. I've got the seeds and the salts can anyone tell me how to prepare onion and garlic for a topping like this? Maybe dried diced onion and garlic from the seasoning aisle in the grocery story? Thanks for the input!

Trish

Got my starters, got a few nice loaves of bread - next thing I want to try is sourdough bagels.

Can you share your recipes, please

Thank you

Lily

Hi all

Does anyone know of a good pumpernickel bagel?

Thank you

HP

Well, thanks to Mountaindog, Tomsbread, Jane and, I'm sure, many others. I finally succeeded in baking a Desem bread at 85% hydration. The key really was folding and gentle, but firm, shaping. I folded three times during the bulk fermentation, preshaped and then did a final shape. It paid off -- the only flatbread I baked this weekend was a pizza.

The best bagels I've ever had were not from New York or New Jersey, or even Philadelphia. They came from a tiny bagel shop in Winston-Salem, NC. I'm not even sure what it's name was; we just called it, "The Bagel Place."

There's no doubt, though, they made the "real thing". Beautifully chewy water bagels with the traditional toppings: plain, poppy seed, garlic, onion, sesame -- and, of course, all the newfangled kinds as well: cinnamon raisin, asiago cheese, chocolate chip, tobacco.

I love getting up early on sundays with a good excuse to bake. Today we have family passing through town, and they'll be on the road a bit so I wanted to make them some portable snacks.

Hi to all at this great website

My name is Jonty, and I am a college student too enamored with baking to waste time on my first ever blog on some other topic (ie: indie music, saving the world, angsty stuff).