jayr@well.UUCP (Jay Roth) (10/27/85)
I am looking for a recipe for a "bialy" (a bialy, is a kin to a bagel, except it is more like a pretzel in texture). I have scoured many cookbooks, "complete" breadbooks, etc., but to no avail. I have even asked some bakeries for their recipe (you know what they said). Does anyone have any idea how to make them? Also, any ideas on how to make "pletzels" (no, not pretzels - a pletzel is kind of like a large flat bialy)? Thanks.
susan@sftig.UUCP (S.Eisen) (10/30/85)
> > I am looking for a recipe for a "bialy" (a bialy, is a kin to a bagel, I scoured my "Jewish" cookbooks for a bialy recipe, and came up with one in a book called "Cooking Kosher the Natural Way", which is a "natural" foods type cookbook written by an editor of Prevention magazine. Frankly, though the book is fun to read and has good ideas, the recipes are a little strange and include lots of ingredients that you can only get in a health food store. Her source for the bialy recipe is a book called "The Roll Basket", by Sue Gross (Kitchen Harvest Press, 3N681 Bittersweet Drive, St. Charles, Illinois 60174). I suggest you try to get that book, since the recipe I found is an adaptation with ingredients that don't seem to belong in a bialy. Even NJ, as close as it is to NY, is devoid of bialys (we won't discuss the bagels here). When we visit the folks in Brooklyn, mecca for bagel & bialy lovers, my father goes to a bialy store on Coney Island Ave. for the bialys, and then combs all the bagel places within a 1/2 mile radius of the house to get the ones fresh out of the oven. I noticed you're in California - my aunt and uncle relocated from East coast to West coast, and when anyone visits, the ONLY thing they request is bialys - last winter my sister brought them 24 DOZEN (yes, that's dozen) bialys in a separate suitcase!! So, next time someone visits from NYC, tell them to bring you a bialy!! Susan
sth@rayssd.UUCP (Stephen T. Hirsch) (11/07/85)
I have always defined a bialy as a bagel with half a hole. When you slice it
lengthwise, one side will have a hole, and the other won't. The flour is more
glutinous than a bagel. I like them better, actually.
Steve Hirsch, {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccieng5}!rayssd!sth
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