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Who introduced the bagel to the United States?

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A wood-fired oven

Montreal-style bagels from bakeries like Fairmount are baked in what kind of oven?

They are also hand-rolled.

Source: Fairmount Bagel fairmountbagel.com

It's boiled briefly in water

What is done to bagel dough right before it is baked?

Boiling seals the dough, giving bagels their shiny crust and dense, compact interior.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica britannica.com

1394

Kraków's obwarzanek, a boiled ring-shaped bread related to the bagel, first appears in royal accounts from what year?

The entry records a purchase for Queen Jadwiga's court.

Source: Obwarzanek Museum, Kraków (Muzeum Obwarzanka) muzeumobwarzanka.com

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