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Cook Bialys | America's Melting Pot | America's Melting Pot

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Bialys

Total time

50 minutes plus rising

Servings

8 bialys

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Equipment

Large pot

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Step 1 of 10

Mix flour, water, yeast, and salt into a soft dough.

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The bialy came from the Jewish bakers of Bialystok and found an American home in New York City. Unlike a bagel, it is not boiled; it is shaped with a center depression and baked with an onion filling. Lower East Side bakeries made bialys a beloved but more localized cousin to the bagel, and modern revivals continue to treat them as a piece of immigrant food memory.

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