What is a bagel?

It is said that in ancient Christian societies, round bread (ancient sarcophagus paintings of bishops often show pasta in a round body) was the earliest predecessor of the bagel. Later, in 1683 AD. A baker in Vienna, Austria, made the first bagel rounds out of yeast-fermented dough in honor of the Polish emperor's rescue of Austria from a Turkish invasion.

Why were they made in this shape? Because the Polish emperor was a very good horseman, the Austrian bakers made the bagel in the shape of a stirrup, which in Austrian is Beugel, meaning complete. After that, the bagel became popular in Eastern Europe, where Jews called it Buger, and over the next three centuries, although the name of the bagel varied from place to place, the ingredients and the practice remained traditional.

By 1880 A.D., many Eastern European Jews came to the United States to escape the Nazi pogroms and brought their favorite bagels with them, which also bound New York and Chicago, which had the largest Jewish immigrant populations at the time, together. Jews have always been world-famous for their conservatism, and in order to maintain the tradition and recipe of bagels, they set up a guild of bagel makers based in New York and strictly regulated the production and sale of bagels, similar to a monopoly system. Only the guild masters can make and sell, and this power to adopt hereditary system only to pass on to his son. This also makes the bagel bread covered with a mysterious color!