A Short History Of Bagels

Originario de la comunidad judía de Europa central, este panecillo crujiente por fuera y gomoso por dentro es una opción extremadamente versátil, ya sea dulce o salada, apta para cualquier hora. Desde la antigua Europa a las tiendas de delicatessen de Nueva York, los bagels se están popularizando.

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+ Sleek: liso, brillante + countless: incontables + flour: harina + yeast: levadura + sweetener: endulzante + savoury: salado + spongy: esponjoso + butter: mantequilla + dough: masa + to shape: dar forma, moldear + figures: cifras + to range: oscilar + likely: probable + Legend has it: cuenta la leyenda + baker: panadero (y/o pastelero) + to date back: remontarse + to set up: montar + to boil: hervir + crusty: crujiente + chewy: gomoso + fillers: rellenos + fairly: bastante + delight: delicia + jaw: mandíbula + workout: ejercicio, entrenamiento + to indulge: darse el gusto
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Este artículo pertenece al número de December 2022 de la revista Speak Up.

Sleek + Sleek: liso, brillante , dense and satisfying, bagels are a favourite of countless + countless: incontables Americans and are also iconic of New York City street food. The ingredient list for bagels is simple: flour + flour: harina , yeast + yeast: levadura , salt and a sweetener + sweetener: endulzante . Sweet or savoury + savoury: salado , their spongy + spongy: esponjoso interior is achieved with high-gluten flour, which is often lightened by adding egg, milk, and butter + butter: mantequilla into the mix. Traditionally, the dough + dough: masa was shaped + to shape: dar forma, moldear by hand into a ring; nowadays, mass production machines take care of this. Production figures + figures: cifras speak for themselves: the number of bagels sold every day in the US ranges + to range: oscilar from two to ten million. But who invented bagels? And how did they become the best-seller they are today? It all began in medieval Europe.

ROLL IT LIKE THE POLES

While there is no definitive proof of it, the bagel is likely + likely: probable to have originated in central Europe. Legend has it + Legend has it: cuenta la leyenda that in Vienna in 1683, a local baker + baker: panadero (y/o pastelero) invented the distinctive bread to commemorate the victory of John III Sobieski, the king of Poland, over the Turks who had tried to conquer the city. However, bagels are mentioned in written accounts in Poland in 1610, and there is also a similar Polish bread ring called ‘obwarzanek‘ that appears in documents that date back + to date back: remontarse to 1394.

THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA

Bagels arrived in the United States in the 19th century, when Eastern European immigrants arrived there, taking their customs and culinary traditions with them. In 1927, the Lender family set up + to set up: montar a bagel business following the old recipe: boiling + to boil: hervir the dough and then baking it, making the rings crusty + crusty: crujiente on the outside and chewy + chewy: gomoso on the inside. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that bagels became popular among the general population. In 1984, Kraft Foods — which made Philadelphia cheese — bought Lender’s Bagels, and by the mid-1990s bagels were a best-selling product that made millions of dollars a year.

THE PERFECT BAGEL

There are many ways to eat a bagel: for breakfast or as a snack, with ingredients like cream cheese and salmon as fillers + fillers: rellenos , or on its own, freshly baked, toasted or even microwaved (although some consider this heresy.) According to one prominent food critic, the perfect bagel is “a fairly + fairly: bastante small, dense, gray, cool and chewy delight + delight: delicia that gives jaw + jaw: mandíbula muscles a Sunday morning workout + workout: ejercicio, entrenamiento .” The not-so-good news is that the number of calories in a bagel has more than doubled in the last twenty years, so it might be a good idea to extend the workout to the rest of the body after indulging + to indulge: darse el gusto in this tempting snack.

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