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Regular
Naked and honest. The base recipe — nothing on top, nothing hiding.
Toppings — None
A handwritten note from the baker
NYC-style bagels and real sourdough bread were nowhere to be found around here. The kind with a crackling crust, dense chew, and real tang — the kind you can't fake. So we decided to bring them to Branson ourselves.
We were tired of what "bread" had become — a list of ingredients as long as a receipt, sitting on a shelf for weeks without changing color. Sourdough doesn't need any of that. Flour. Water. Salt. A living starter, and the patience to let it do its work.
Our bagels do get one traditional touch: a little barley malt syrup in the dough. It's what gives a real NYC-style bagel that deep crust color and gentle sweetness — industrial "bagels" skip it and fake the color with caramel coloring. We don't. That's the one extra. That's it.
Our dough ferments long and slow — often more than a full day — which is what gives it that gentle tang, the open crumb, and the easier-to-digest feel. Each bagel is hand-shaped, boiled, and baked in small batches. A 200-gram bagel is a serious bagel. It's a whole meal on its own.
We bake out of a licensed cottage kitchen right here in Branson. Because our batches are small, we sell them by text: we message the club, you reply, you pick up. That's the whole system. Simple, honest, and a little old-fashioned.