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Montreal bagels · Montréal bagels
Eight slender Québec-style rings are hand-shaped, simmered in sweetened water, seeded and baked on a preheated stone in this home adaptation.
King Arthur Baking presents this recipe as a home version of a Québec classic. Its account distinguishes the style from New York bagels by their relatively slender shape, slight sweetness and sweetened boiling liquid. A Montreal bakery describes its own product in similar terms and identifies its own wood-fired bake; that business account is useful evidence of one producer’s practice, not a formula shared by every bakery.
The measured method here belongs to King Arthur Baking: eight rings from one dough, a brief simmer on both sides, seed coating and baking on a preheated stone. The stone is the source’s home-oven substitute for a wood-fired oven. It preserves the ring, sweet boil and seed finish, while smoke and the irregular heat of a live hearth remain outside this adaptation.
The dough is deliberately firm. Start at the lower end of the flour range and add only what is needed for a smooth dough that no longer clings to your fingers. Use the dough’s spring-back and near-doubling as cues for the rises; the source does not assign a room temperature or a numeric water temperature.
The final stages move between a simmering pot and a 475°F oven. Arrange the work area before boiling, handle the bagels with a slotted spoon and keep excess parchment off the hot stone. King Arthur Baking notes that parchment can char in this temperature range, so watch exposed edges throughout baking.
Treat the mixed dough as raw food. The CDC warns that uncooked flour can carry germs and advises against tasting raw dough; bake as directed and wash hands, bowls, utensils and work surfaces after handling flour or dough.
King Arthur Baking calls its method a home-oven adaptation of a Québec classic. This source supports a regional association and a modern recipe, but not a first attestation or an exact origin date.
Yield 8 bagels · Scaling: source batch only
Uncooked flour can carry pathogens, so the dough must not be tasted before baking.
Hazard sourceThe recipe requires simmering water and moving bagels onto a stone preheated to 475°F.
Hazard sourceThe source warns that parchment edges can char between 450°F and 500°F.
Hazard sourceDo not eat raw dough; bake using the recipe directions, then wash hands, bowls, utensils and counters after handling flour and dough.
Control sourceUse a slotted spoon to handle bagels in the simmering liquid and take care when loading and unloading the preheated stone.
Control sourceTrim excess parchment and closely watch exposed edges during baking at 475°F.
Control sourceThe source provides no numerical temperature for lukewarm dough water or the proofing environment.
This home-oven method does not reproduce the wood-fired oven's smoke and hearth behaviour.
Sesame or poppy seeds are selected toppings; check the package and avoid any seed allergy.
The source calls its home adaptation a Québec classic. This supports a regional association, not a precise birthplace or date.
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Montreal BagelsComplete ingredient quantities, yield, shaping, proofing cues, sweetened boil, 475°F baking-stone method, bake time and storage.
The style comparison with New York bagels and the home oven adaptation of wood-fired baking.
Parchment edge charring warning at high oven temperatures.
Cited in: A Québec style, adapted for a home oven; Working with a firm dough and hot stone
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