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    Aunt Saunny

    List of Ingredients




    1/4 cup butter
    1/4 ounce package dry yeast
    1 1/2 cups warm water
    1 cup milk
    1 tablespoon sugar
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 egg
    4 cups all-purpose flour
    1 tablespoons vegetable oil

    Recipe



    Grease 2 sheet pans with butter and set aside. Mix the yeast with warm water in a small bowl. Pour milk into sauce pan. Heat on medium until little bubbles form. Remove milk from heat, add 1/4 cup butter, sguar and salt, and stir.

    Pour entire mixture into a large bowl. Add yeast mixuture and stir. Separate the egg. Put the yolk in one bowl and the egg white in another bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of water to the yolk. Set the bowl aside.

    Pour 2 cups of flour into the bowl wih the liquid mixture. Mix until the flour is incorporated into the mixture. Then add the remaining flour, a little at a time. Form dough into a ball. Knead dough until smooth and no longer stick to touch. Grease bowl with 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, add dough, turn it over to coat all sides with oil. Cover with wax paper and set bowl aside for 1 1/2 hours.

    Punch it down to remove some of the air. Knead the dough again for several minutes. Divide dough into 8 equal pieces. Roll each dough ball into a rope. The rope should be 6 inches long and 1/2 inch thick. Form each rope into a righ with 1 inch hole in the center. Drop a little water on the rope ends and pinch them together.

    Set each bagel on a floured sheet pan. Lightly spread oil and a little warm water over the tops of each bagel. Cover with wax paper. Set aside for 20 minutes.

    Fill a large pot with water and bring water to a boil. Preheat the oven to 400 degress. Gently lift bagel off sheet pans. With a slotted spoon, lower 1 bagel into the water at a time. Bagels will rise to the surface. Simmer them for 30 seconds. Lift each bagel from the water with the slotted spoon. Set bagels on greased sheet pans. Immediately brush tops of bagels with yolk mixture. You can sprinkle differnt toppings on each such as kosher salt, poppy seeds, onions and sesame seeds.Bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees until tops of bagels look golen brown. Lift bagels with spatula and set on a wire rack to cool.
    To serve, use a serrrated knife to cut bagel in half. Spread with butter, cream cheese, or top with lox, and:


 

 

 


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