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Thursday’s Recipe-Homemade Pumpkin Bagels and Maple Butter

This was a fun and fairly simple recipe to make and because it uses rapid rise yeast, they don’t take hours to prepare. And the results were delicious!!!

I suppose these aren’t “real” bagels because we didn’ t boil them-but the recipe (on tattered piece of paper from unknown origin) calls these bagels. So……….

Pumpkin Bagels

4 1/4 to 4 3/8 cups all purpose flour, divided

1 package quick rise all natural active dry yeast

1 cup warm water (120-130 degrees)

1 cup canned pumpkin

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

Combine 2 cups of the flour and the yeast. Add the warm water, pumpkin, sugar and salt.

Beat with a mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, scraping the bowl constantly. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes.

Using a spoon stir in as of the remaining flour as you can.

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface.

Knead in enough remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic-about 5 minutes.

Cover and let rest 10 minutes. Grease a cookie sheet and set aside ( or use parchment paper)

Divide the dough into 10 portions.

Real life math!

Shape each portion into a smooth ball.

Poke a hole into the center of each ball and pull to make a 2 inch hole.

Place on prepared cookie sheet. Cover and let rise 20 minutes. Pre heat oven to 375

Bake for 25 minutes or until tops are golden brown.

While you are waiting for your bagels to cook you can make your maple butter and honey butter.

For the maple butter just combine maple syrup to taste with softened butter in your mixer using whisk attachment. Whip it up  and store in the fridge so that it doesn’t separate-if it does just stir it up again. (maybe 3/4 stick of butter to 1/4 to 1/2 cup maple syrup) again more or less to taste.

For the honey butter we mixed about 3/4 stick of butter with 1/4 to 1/2 cup honey, a few drops of vanilla, and a shake of cinnamon in the mixer. More or less to taste.

When your bagels are finished baking-smear lots of these sweet, creamy butters on your warm bagels and enjoy!!!

The recipe made 10 bagels…enough for us to have homemade pumpkin bagels and maple and honey butter again this morning!!

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