About Bagels -- General Directions 1 B Recipe
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STEP 1: MIX, KNEAD AND FIRST RISE:
The Bread Machine:
The bread machine yields excellent results every time when you use fresh
ingredients and follow directions. Set the machine on "dough cycle", and
let it produce a dough with the texture of velvet and the stiff
consistency required.
When using a bread machine, add ingredients in the order recommended in
your manufacturer's instructions. The recipes in this series have
ingredients listed for machines that require adding liquids first and dry
components last.
Reverse the order for those that add dry ingredients first and wet ones
last. Process on the "dough mode," or "program", or "mix bread cycle" or
whatever it is termed by your machine's instructions. Allow the dough to
rise through the full first rise period after the kneading phase, between
35 minutes and 1 hour.
On shorter cycles, and depending on the weather and moisture of the
ingredients, you may have to leave it in the machine for 10 or 15 minutes
longer, or until the dough fills about 2/3 of the pan. Whole grain flours
may require up to 1 to 2 hours for the first rise. Do not allow the dough
to bake in the machine.
Dry ingredients such as spices, cinnamon, nutmeg and finely chopped nuts
are added with the fours at the beginning. Wet ingredients such as mashed
bananas, applesauce, pumpkin, grated carrots and frozen berries are added
with the liquids, but if you add more wet ingredients to the recipes in
this series, their liquid content must replace an equal amount of liquid.
Adding raisins and other dried fruits at the beginning is not recommended;
most bread machines pulverize them so they're hardly visible in the
finished bagel.
Check dough about 5 minutes after you have started the machine. The dough
should form a nice round ball. If a ball doesn't form, and the mixture
appears crumbly, add water, a tablespoon or less at a time, until the
correct consistency is achieved. If dough looks too wet or formless, add
flour, a tablespoon or less at a time, until the dough forms a ball.
Add ingredients such as raisins, dates, chocolate chips and apple pieces
about 5 to 8 minutes before the end of the kneading phase. Some machine
beep to indicate the optimum time to add nuts or raisins. Check your
manufacturers instructions for the time required for each process in the
dough cycle. If your machine does not provide this timed signal,
determine the length of the kneading phase and set a timer for 5 minutes
before the end; then open the machine and carefully add the ingredients,
being sure that they do not spill onto the heating elements. Ingredients
can also be kneaded into the dough by hand after it is removed from the
machine.
NOTE: When adding reconstituted dried foods to the dough in a bread
machine (5 to 10 minutes before the end of the kneading phase), foods
should be blotted very dry with a paper towel so that any retained
moisture does not change the texture of the dough and inhibit it from
rising properly.
A 60 minute rise period is ideal. It's ok to open the machine and quickly
test the dough during the rise period. Gently push your finger into the
dough, and if the dent remains, dough is ready. If the impression bounces
back, let dough rise a few minutes longer and retest. Dough can become
slack if allowed to rise too long. White flour rises highest. White
flour combined with whole wheat, rye and oats will not rise as high.
Generally, the darker the dough, the lower the rise and the longer it
takes.
When ready, remove dough form the pan and proceed to step 2: Shape Bagels.
CONTINUED IN ABOUT BAGELS -- GENERAL DIRECTIONS 2
The Best Bagels are made at home by Dona Z. Meilach
ISBN 1-55867-131-5
Carolyn Shaw April 1996 From: Homenet Cook
Converted by MC_Buster.
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