Malt flour, water, yeast, sugar . These are the ingredients in the bagels known as Montreal style found at Myer’s Bagels in Burlington, VT. Unlike most Montreal style bagels, Myer’s uses no salt, eggs or preservatives. The ingredients are mixed into a dough, hand cut, hand rolled, boiled in honey water which makes the sesames, poppy seeds, etc. adhere to them and gives the bagels a sheen. Then they are baked in a wood burning oven. They’re smaller, less bready and it’s easy to eat more than one (less calories too!). Get them plain or with sesame, poppy seed, garlic, onion and the best, Montreal Spice. Continue reading “A Triumph of Simplicity”
A Triumph of Simplicity
