Type | Bagel |
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Place of origin | Canada |
Region or state | Montreal, Quebec |
Main ingredients | Flour, malt, eggs, honey |
Cuisine of Quebec |
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The Montreal-style bagel or Montreal bagel (sometimes beigel; Yiddish: בײגל, romanized: beygl; French: Bagel de Montréal) is a distinctive variety of handmade and wood-fired baked bagel. In contrast to the New York–style bagel,[1] the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked in a wood-fired oven.[2] It contains malt, egg, and no salt, and is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked.[3]
In some Montreal establishments, bagels are still produced by hand and baked in full view of the patrons.[4] There are two predominant varieties: black-seed (poppy seed), or white-seed (sesame seed).