New York Bagels

How to make it

1. 1

   Prep

   • Weigh out the bread flour, water, salt, and yeast. / • Have plenty of water ready for boiling the bagels. / • Preheat the oven thoroughly before baking.

2. 2

   Mix the bread flour, water, salt, and yeast into a stiff bagel dough.

3. 3

   Knead until the surface of the dough is smooth, then let it through the 1st rise.

4. 4

   Divide the dough, then shape the pieces into bagels.

5. 5

   Cold-retard the shaped dough in the refrigerator.

6. 6

   Give the bagel dough a quick boil in boiling water.

7. 7

   Bake in the preheated oven until the outside is golden.

No coming back

Things that actually went wrong over 20 years in a kitchen.

• Over-boil them and the crust turns tough and the bite heavy.

You can fix this

If it hasn't burned or stuck to the pan, it can still be fixed.

• Dough can only be fixed before it goes in the oven — a little more flour if it is slack, a little more water if it is stiff. Once baked, nothing can be changed.