The peerless Gerard has pointed me to a site that tells the story of the bagel, including the information that the shape was favoured because it made it possible to carry bagels about by threading them on a string or a stick. It also appears that they are cooked by boiling - whether as well as baking or instead of I'm not sure.
I visualise bagel sellers carrying their strings of bagels from door to door like the onion sellers we used to see. I wonder what health and safety regulations would apply to bagel stringing ?
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