Ingredients
1 cup raisins plus 1 cup hot water
1 1/2 cups lukewarm water
3 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons pink Himalayan sea salt
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 teaspoons quick-rise instant yeast
4 1/4 cups all-purpose white flour
Preparation
Step 1
Pour hot water over raisins. Stir and let set 5 minutes.
Step 2
Add the rest of the ingredients to a mixing bowl.
Step 3
Drain the raisins and add to the rest of the ingredients.
Step 4
Knead in bowl with dough hooks or by hand about 3-4 minutes. The dough will be somewhat wet. If after a couple of minutes it hasn't firmed up, add a little more flour. The finished dough should still be a little sticky.
Step 5
Let raise 40 minutes in cold oven with light on.
Step 6
Divide dough in half, then each half into 5 pieces, to make 10 even pieces of dough. Shape each piece into a ball. Poke your finger into the middle of the ball and stretch into a bagel shape. (Make the holes a lot bigger than a cooked bagel's) Place on a greased pan.
Step 7
Let raise 30 minutes not in oven.
Step 8
Heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Put 3L water and 3Tablespoons of baking soda* into a cooking pot and bring to a boil. Boil bagels on each side for 40 seconds. (I use the stopwatch on my phone to time them) Place them back on the greased pan and when all bagels are boiled, immediately put them into the hot oven. Bake for 15-17 minutes.
*the baking soda gives them the nice brown color