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Montreal-Style Bagels

Name: Montreal-Style Bagels
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 1 Egg; 5 tbsp Honey; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 180ml Lukewarm water; 50g White Sesame Seeds; 2L Water

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Montreal's famous small, sweet bagels, boiled in honey water and then baked.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Montreal bagels were brought by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century. Compared with New York bagels they're smaller with a bigger hole, made with egg and no salt in the dough. They're boiled in honey-sweetened water and baked in wood-fired ovens, so they come out sweet and toasty. Sesame is the favorite.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an old Montreal bagel shop lit late into the night, hot bagels straight from the wood oven are bagged up and eaten on the walk home.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Egg 1
Honey 5 tbsp
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp
Lukewarm water 180ml
White Sesame Seeds 50g
Water 2L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the bread flour, yeast, egg, 2 tbsp honey, oil, and lukewarm water, and knead for 10 minutes.
Cover and let rise somewhere warm for 1 hour, until doubled.
Divide into 8, roll each into a 25cm rope, and overlap the ends to form a ring.
Bring the water with 3 tbsp honey to a boil and boil the bagels 1 minute per side.
Drain and coat all over with sesame seeds.
Bake in an oven preheated to its highest setting for 15–18 minutes until well browned.

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