Aces - I’ll check better homes & gardens recipe. I’ll also check out the link for water roux - something that’s also new for me.

Ok so what’s your bagel recipe?
may the yeast soon arrive. It’s posts like yours where I feel relieved and justified to have bought a total of 4 pounds of yeast! I ran into another mom at Safeway last week in the baking aisle and when she mentioned yeast, I offered to be her final desperate hope for yeast, because she suddenly didn’t seem to need it :-)