Increasing the sugar keeps a bagel fresher longer, he acknowledged, but "we're not a sweeter bagel, we're a traditional bagel".
I'm wary of increasing the sugar content, so I do a little digging online, and discover that beating the batter vigorously after adding the egg will help create a meringue-like outer layer which rises as the mixture bakes.
His greatest secret weapon is a reverse-osmosis machine that concentrates the sap by pulling it through sensitive membranes, greatly increasing the sugar content before it even hits the boiler.
An attempt was made to increase ethanol production up to 18%to20%0% (w/v) as in the case of sake fermentation, by increasing the sugar concentration from 300 to 400 g/L with supplementation of fruit pulp.
"Increasing the sugar content helps defend against ice crystal formation, which can do all kinds of terrible things to cells like dehydrate them, crush them, rupture them.
"In order to defend itself against the cold, [carrots have] developed all these amazing physiological responses, including increasing the sugar content," she says.
