La masa a menudo se saborea con diferentes productos tales como sal, cebolla, ajo, huevo, centeno. Existen algunas variedades no tan tradicionales como: tomate, salvado, queso, comino entre otros. Los bagels pueden estar cubiertos de semillas de sésamo, cebolla o sal.
Bagels are kind of bread traditionally made with wheat flour with a whole in the middle. Some versions of the recipe add a sweet touch to the bagel ( usually using malt powder, sugar or honey). Before baking them, they are slightly cooked in boiling water, this produces a really dense bread crumb and a lightly crunchy crust.
Usually the dough is seasoned with salt, onion, garlic, egg or rye. And there are other variations that include tomato, bran, cheese, cumin....
Bagels can be topped with sesame seeds, onion, salt.....
Posteriormente, el alimento se popularizó entre la comunidad judía a mediados del siglo XIX, cuando panaderías de Londres comenzaron a comercializarlos regularmente en tres unidades. Posteriormente, la emigración a América del Norte de ciudadanos europeos y judíos favoreció la implantación del alimento y su comercialización.
It´s said that bagels were created to commemorate the victory of Poland king, Jan III Sobieski over the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Viena in 1683.
But actually, they were created much sooner, in Krakow, Poland to compete with the Bublik, a thin wheat flour bread tipycal of the Lent. Leo Rosten wrote in his book "The Joys of Yiddish" that first time that the word "bajgiel" was used was in the "Community Regulations" of Krakov in 1610. This regulations established that a bagel should be presented as a gift to women after giving birth. During 16th and 17th centuries "bajgiel" became a basic element of the national Poland diet.
In XIX century bagels became popular in the Jewish community, when London bakeries started selling them. Lately, bagels were brought to United States by immigrant Polish-Jews.