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I'll try to find time later to type it in to the 'puter :mrgreen:

edit...

here ya go :cheers:

1 kg Strong white flour
1 tbsp Salt
1 tsp Easy yeast
2 tbsp Sugar
1 tbsp Veg oil
500ml Warm water

Mix flour, salt and yeast together in a large bowl. Mix sugar, oil and water.

Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients, stir with the wrong end of a wooden spoon (or a spurtle, if you have one)

Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic, this is hard work, it takes about 10 mins. You want the dough to stay as dry as possible so add more flour, if you need to.

Put the dough into an oiled bowl and leave to rise for about an hour.

Now punch down the dough and knead it again, for a few minutes.

Split the dough into 3 equal sized lumps, then split each lump into 5 - I find it easiest to weigh it, 110g per bagel should do it.

Roll each piece into a ball, then, pushing a hole right through the middle, turn each into a ring. Leave the bagels to rest on baking trays for about 20 mins, covered with a tea towel or clingfilm.

Put a large pot of water to boil on the stove, add 2 tbsp of sugar to the water.

Preheat your oven to 240 oC

When your bagels have risen and you have a rolling boil in the pot you need to poach the bagels. Pop them in the water 2 or 3 at a time, turn once and take them out after a minute.

Place them back on the baking trays, well spaced and bake for 15 -20 mins, or until they just start turning golden brown on top.





Enjoy :mrgreen:
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9ball wrote:I tend to use Asda or other supermarkets to get organic or free range meat when it's near the sell buy date and reduced - it's the only way I can really afford it.
Yep, me too.

We had a milkman until very recently when the round was stopped due to lack of custom. I grow most of my own veg so that's not too big a problem, but we have no local farmers markets and, since I rely on good old public transport, if I travelled to one I'd be limited in what I could carry home.
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Post: # 77606Post Thurston Garden »

Thanks Annpan - I never knew bagels were poached first! Learn something new every day on here :lol:

One upside (is it an upside?) of ASDA opening was that I got 5 loaves of good brown bread and 4 pieces of fish in the Co last night all reduced in price. Total £2.50. :hello1:

I would have gone in tonight again had the diff not packed in on my Land Rover this morning :crybaby:
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Post: # 77613Post mrsflibble »

my asdas is fabby. it used to be terrible for veg and organic stuff, but since their revamp earlier this year they rock. we still go to t***o for some things (sorry) mainly because they do the nappies soph likes and asda don't sell Lingham's Chilli Sauce for my hubby, but on the whole we're with asda 100%.

mind you, i went to a monther's meeting today and we ended up in t**** to have lunch and i got some wrapping paper which was just 16p for 2m of it.
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Thurston Garden wrote: One upside (is it an upside?) of ASDA opening was that I got 5 loaves of good brown bread and 4 pieces of fish in the Co last night all reduced in price. Total £2.50. :hello1:
Are you inviting round 4999 friends to share your loaves and fishes with :lol:

I hope you enjoy the bagels, it has been a while since I have made them. They are defo better than shop bought.
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Annpan wrote:
Thurston Garden wrote: One upside (is it an upside?) of ASDA opening was that I got 5 loaves of good brown bread and 4 pieces of fish in the Co last night all reduced in price. Total £2.50. :hello1:
Are you inviting round 4999 friends to share your loaves and fishes with :lol:

I hope you enjoy the bagels, it has been a while since I have made them. They are defo better than shop bought.
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Shirlz wrote:
ina wrote: I get almost all my goods from either the NEEPS co-op (dry goods, beer :oops: etc),
I've found that to be great - but then I would say that wouldn't I!!! :mrgreen:
That Neeps site is great! Do you run it, Shirley? I have thought about starting a food co-op here and did go as far as getting price lists, but I am a bit intimidated by the idea as I have no experience and little spare time. Who organises your co-op? I would love some more information.

I also use supermarkets (Sainsburys usually as it is nearest) because it would be so time consuming to find everything I needed in town, although I make a point of buying seasonal veg and fruit plus some meat from the farmshop, just a couple of miles from me. I detest some of the practices of the supermarkets, though, and I think that apart from the Co-op they are all as bad as each other. I think they have removed most of our choices as they have caused most of the independents to lie down and die, and this makes it almost impossible to avoid them.

A food co-op would mean that I didn't have to use Sainsburys at all, or at least very little. That would be excellent!

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Chickenlady wrote: That Neeps site is great! Do you run it, Shirley? I have thought about starting a food co-op here and did go as far as getting price lists, but I am a bit intimidated by the idea as I have no experience and little spare time. Who organises your co-op? I would love some more information.
Since Shirley hasn't replied yet, I'll do it for her - yes, she does, and she does all the co-op work, too... Well, we try to help on the delivery day and the distribution day.
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Well chickenlady, maybe we could get lucky and Shirlz would give us a few pointers to get a food coop off the ground. I too have the pricelists and have found a way to get all the staples & household stuff from Highland Wholefoods Coop which is a spin off from GreenCity and also there is a place about an hour and half south that does organic veg boxes with lots of highland produce plus all the organic perishables (milk, highland cheeses, meats, creams the lot) I just now need people! My brother-in-law is already looking forward to kilo bags of red lentils and buckets of organic raw unadulterated peanut butter!

I can get local eggs and will soon have some of my own hopefully, and it's easy to get fish and a few veg but, otherwise I've only got a "health food" shop that is in Thurso which is slim pickins and requires a three hour trip. I was spoiled in Edinburgh being around the corner from Real Foods and organic veg box delivered every fortnite from Damhead! I need to go 15 miles for organic milk and organic basics which also means I'm stuck going to T***o or a poorly stocked Coop.

Groceries is the largest monthly bill I have and I've resorted to shopping out of Goodness Direct every now and again to satisfy Japanese food cravings amongst others! I do hope I heal quick and am able to fence off a bigger garden plot this year plus getting up the windbreak mesh. We've had ok crops of berries, kale, radishes, salad greens & herbs, tatties and carrots this year but, we could really be doing with more!

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Post: # 77742Post ina »

caithnesscrofter wrote:I need to go 15 miles for organic milk and organic basics which also means I'm stuck going to T***o or a poorly stocked Coop.
Do you have a local shop nearer by? My local (4 miles away) orders organic milk just for me and one other customer, and they also stock a few other organic staples (oatcakes!), since I've asked for them. They are no more expensive than the nearest Coop.
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