Saturday, 28. August 2004

Bakers at N.Y. Fair Make 868 Pound Bagel


he recipe: 660 pounds of flour, 900 gallons of water, half a pound of dry yeast, 53 pounds of malt and 12 1/2 pounds of salt. The apparent result: the world's biggest bagel.

The 2004 New York State Fair was the backdrop Friday as bakers from Bruegger's Bagels produced a nearly half-ton bagel — sans the cream cheese — to likely gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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