The bagels and the apple pie

The bagels are sandwiches soft, ring-shaped, whose peculiarity lies in cooking that involves immersing a few minutes in boiling water before putting them in the oven and cook.

The legends about the origin of the bagels are many. Confidently we know that bagels are a bread of Jewish origin. Some accounts say that the bagels have been designed by a Pole to mark the victory of a war and that they were then exported to the US, and particularly in New York (where it says that you eat the best bagels in the world) by Jewish immigrants in the twentieth century. Another legend has it that the bagels are designed to be a baker in Krakow in 1863, to pay homage to the King Jean Sobieski III for having prevented Turks from invading Vienna. Baker would have created this bread-shaped bracket (bugel in German) in honor of the victorious knight. The bagles are a real institution in America, but they are not alone.

The Apple pie is the best icon in the world. This is the cake that leads to the Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother that Grandma Duck prepares for her grandchildren. A cake would say historic. The difference with the nostrana apple pie consists in the fact that the Apple Pie is composed of two layers of dough with a filling of apples and cinnamon while in the apple pie Italian latter are blended mixture.

In London, as in the US the Apple Pie Apple Pie is served, strictly hot, accompanied by whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You decide how you prefer to accompany a slice of this pie. But, it may sound strange but these two sweet so simple in reality require a working knowledge of pastry and remarkable.

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