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Also, last night I made bagels and pretzels.

Well, ok, not so much. XD This was following a recipe in Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, which we've used for bread several times before. (The 5 minutes is that you make a wet batter-like dough that its in the fridge for up to 2 weeks, and when you want bread you hack off a bit, shape it, let it rise, and bake it.)

Their bagel recipe also made pretzels, although their instructions left a wee bit to be desired when it came to shaping both. It said for pretzels to roll out your dough bits into 12" rolls that were 1/2" thick. Yeah, they needed to be longer and thinner. As it is, they're mutant lumps. For the bagels, I was supposed to shape the hole until it was 3 times the width of the wall. Yeah...next time I go for 2 times. XD Basic cooking is pretty much the same for both: boil them for a bit to form the outer skin/shell, then bake to finish.

They all TASTE just fine, although the bagels have the texture of soft pretzels and the pretzels have the texture of bagels.

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Looks pretty good for an adventure in baking! :)

Thank you! :D They're all edible, so it's not a great loss. I just have to practice shaping them.

Edible ftw.

Our first attempt at bread in a bread-maker* resulted in something that squeaked as you chewed it. So, uh. Leery of making bread or bread-like objects. ;)

*To be fair, it was rice bread. But still.

My parents had a bread machine for years, and made every mistake it was possible to make, which we usually learned the next morning as they'd put stuff in and set the timer to be ready in the morning. Forgetting to put the liquid in was epic: we woke up to a container full of nicely toasted flour!

I made bagels once!

...yeah, that's about how they came out, too.

I wasn't expecting the to come out perfect, but I wasn't quite expecting this result! XD