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Sourdough bagel question/ troubleshooting......  Hello, I am new
here and have been perusing this website with a terribly
obsessive streak-oh the wealth of information is just lovely and
mind-boogling! I wish I could bake all day!  Ok, that aside-I
just made my very first batch of bagels and have a few
questions. Let me just say first off, that my family and I
really like the way they turned out, so if I don't even figure
out what went awry it is no biggie, but I am curious as to why
they didn't do what they were supposed to according to the
recipe.  I followed bwraith's "Sourdough Bagels Revisited"
recipe ( ) with the difference that I didn't have malt syrup at
hand-so I used molasses , I had no first clear flour so I used
Unbleached White flour by Arrowhead Mills and, since my SD
starter was Rye, I used the white flour for the entire 27oz nee