English Muffins Made Easy Food

EASY ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Place 1/4 cup flour, yeast, and 1/2 cup water in a mixing bowl. Whisk together and set aside for about 10 minutes to see if thin layer of foam develops to ensure yeast is active. Drizzle in vegetable oil; add salt, egg white, remaining 1 3/4 cup flour, and remaining 1/4 cup warm water. Mix together until dough is very wet and sticky. Cover. Set in a warm spot and let rise until doubled, about 2 hours.
• Pull dough gently from sides of bowl, stirring slightly, and turn out onto a well-floured rolling surface. Work in just enough flour until dough is easily handled and can be cut into 6 pieces, about 1 minute. Cut dough into 6 equal portions. Form a seamless ball of dough, adding a pinch of flour to keep it from sticking. Flatten to make thick disks. Transfer dough onto a lined baking sheet sprinkled generously with cornmeal. Let rise until doubled, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Add clarified butter to skillet over medium heat. Carefully transfer muffin disks to skillet. Cook in batches to avoid overcrowding. Brown on one side, 5 or 6 minutes. Turn, and brown the other side, 5 or 6 minutes. Continue turning to get muffins evenly browned and cooked through, 7 or 8 minutes total per side. Transfer to a cooking rack and cool completely (this is key as you can't split the muffins unless they are cooled).
• Split cooled muffins with a fork, inserting tines all the way around edges so the 2 sides can be pulled apart. Toast and serve with jam.

ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Make the dough.
• Whisk the flour, sugar, yeast and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the egg but don't stir it in yet.
• Heat the milk and coconut oil in a saucepan until a thermometer reads 110 degrees F. (If the milk is too hot when you add it to the flour mixture, it will kill the yeast.)
• Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Avoid pouring it directly on the egg-you don't want the hot milk to cook it.
• Using the dough hook, mix on medium speed until the dough comes together and starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl, 3 to 4 minutes. Scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula, if needed. The dough will look a little irregular in texture.
• Knead the dough.
• Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, soft and elastic, 3 to 4 minutes. Shape into a ball and place in a large bowl lightly oiled with coconut oil; rub the top of the dough with a little more coconut oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 1 to 2 hours.
• Form the muffins.
• Sprinkle 2 baking sheets with cornmeal and set aside. After the dough rises, punch it down and divide into 16 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, then flatten into a 3-inch disk. Place the disks on the baking sheets.
• Cook the muffins.
• Heat a 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Coat the skillet with cooking spray and liberally sprinkle with cornmeal. Working in batches, cook the muffins until they are deep golden brown, 5 to 9 minutes per side. If they start to rise in a domed fashion, flatten them with a spatula. Let the English muffins cool completely, then split open, toast and serve with butter and jam.

SUPER EASY ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• 1. In a small pot melt butter and shortening add milk and heat up until it is warm to the touch turn off stove and set aside. In a large bowl add warm water, yeast and sugar mix and let sit in a warm place until it is foamy about 10 minutes.
• 2. In a food processor or mixer or by hand add flour, salt, yeast mixture, and milk mixture. Combine until a dough forms you might need more flour if dough is too sticky. Knead for 5 minutes until it is soft and smooth ball. Place the dough in a large oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 1 hour. After the hour dough will be doubled in size punch dough down. Roll dough out about about 1/2 inch thick. With a round cutter biscuit or cookie cut out dough. I usually cut out 26 with my cutter. Place in a parchment lined paper floured liberally or sometimes I use cornmeal so the dough won't stick to the paper very important so you can pickup muffins with ease. I prefer to use corn meal but sometimes I don't have it so I use flour. cover the cut out muffins with plastic wrap and let them rise for 45 minutes. To ensure another second rise I turn my oven to the lowest level and let it warm up for 15 minutes than turn it off. I put my muffin trays in the oven and turn light on. And they rise with out any problems.
• 3. After the second rice heat up your griddle or cast iron skillet the a low heat and let it heat up for 5 minutes. I use a cast iron skillet they brown up beautifully. Place muffins on the skillet no need to oil or butter but you can do it if you want to. Cook them on low heat for 4-5 minutes on each side until they are firm to the touch. That is all to it pretty simple and easy. Enjoy with butter and jam or just by them selves are good. If when you pick them up they deflate when placing them in the griddle or pan don't panic they will rise again when they are cooking. It happened to me couple of times but they will rise back again. Just make sure your tray is well floured or use corn meal seems to work better before the second rise.

ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Since you cook these on top of the stove, there is no need to preheat the oven.Proof the yeast in the l/2 Cup of lukewarm milk with the sugar.Scald the 1 cup of milk, melt the butter in it and let cool to lukewarm.
• Add the salt and the slightly beaten egg to the milk-and-butter mixture. Pour the yeast sponge into a large mixing bowl and blend in the milk-butter-and-egg mixture. Add the flour, a little at a time,mixing together well.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead, adding more flour if necessary.
• Knead until elastic and shiny.
• Then place the dough in a large buttered bowl, cover with a towel and let rise for at least 1 hour, until doubled in bulk.
• Meanwhile, pour the cornmeal onto a platter and set aside. Take the dough out onto the work surface and knead again for a couple of minutes.
• Roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 1/3" and, with a glass or a large biscuit cutter, cut out round cakes.
• Put these onto the platter with the cornmeal, press down slightly and turn to get the other side covered with cornmeal.
• Place on a baking sheet and cover with a towel.
• Let stand for about 20 to 30 minutes or until doubled in size. Place a skillet over medium heat and when hot, brush with a little melted butter, turn the heat low and place about 5 to 6 muffins in the pan.
• Cook for approximately 5 minutes on each side, or until they are slightly brown.
• Cool on a rack.
• Toast after they are completely cooled off and right before serving them.

HOMEMADE ENGLISH MUFFINS RECIPE

Steps:

• Measure the bread flour into the bowl. Add in all the other ingredients apart from the semolina which is for dusting the muffins before they're cooked.
• Mix this together until it forms a soft dough. Tip this out onto the work surface and begin to knead it.
• Knead the dough for between 5 - 10 minutes until it forms a smooth and stretchy dough.
• Grease a clean bowl with olive oil and pop the kneaded dough into it to rise. Cover with a clean tea-towel and put it somewhere that's not in direct sunlight or cool draughts.
• Leave to double in size, this should take about an hour.
• Sprinkle half of the semolina out onto a baking tray. Divide the dough into 8 roughly equal sized pieces and shape them into balls. Place them on the baking tray and cover with a tea towel and leave to rise for about 30 minutes.
• At the end of that time, dust the tops of the balls with the remaining semolina and warm your non-stick frying pan on a medium to low heat. Add some butter to the pan until is sizzles.
• Place a ball of dough into the pan and let it cook for about 5 minutes. If your pan is large enough you can fit in more pieces of dough.
• At the end of this time, turn the muffins over, they should be golden brown coloured, and cook the other side for a further 5 minutes.
• Pre-heat the oven to 160C Fan/180C/350F
• When all the muffins have been cooked in the frying pan place them on a baking tray. Pop this into the oven and cook for a further 5 minutes. This ensures that the muffins are cooked through.
• Place them on a cooling rack and leave for about an hour before trying one.
• Your English muffins are now ready. Now search out the butter and try one!

ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• Warm the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Mix in the sugar, stirring until dissolved. Let cool until lukewarm. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, combine the milk, yeast mixture, shortening and 3 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Add salt and rest of flour, or enough to make a soft dough. Knead. Place in greased bowl, cover, and let rise.
• Punch down. Roll out to about 1/2 inch thick. Cut rounds with biscuit cutter, drinking glass, or empty tuna can. Sprinkle waxed paper with cornmeal and set the rounds on this to rise. Dust tops of muffins with cornmeal also. Cover and let rise 1/2 hour.
• Heat greased griddle. Cook muffins on griddle about 10 minutes on each side on medium heat. Keep baked muffins in a warm oven until all have been cooked. Allow to cool and place in plastic bags for storage. To use, split and toast. Great with orange butter, or cream cheese and jam.

ENGLISH MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl combine the powdered milk, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, shortening, and hot water, stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. Let cool. In a separate bowl combine the yeast and 1/8 teaspoon of sugar in 1/3 cup of warm water and rest until yeast has dissolved. Add this to the dry milk mixture. Add the sifted flour and beat thoroughly with wooden spoon. Cover the bowl and let it rest in a warm spot for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the griddle to 300 degrees F.
• Add the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt to mixture and beat thoroughly. Place metal rings onto the griddle and coat lightly with vegetable spray. Using #20 ice cream scoop, place 2 scoops into each ring and cover with a pot lid or cookie sheet and cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Remove the lid and flip rings using tongs. Cover with the lid and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a cooling rack, remove rings and cool. Split with fork and serve.

ENGLISH MUFFINS MADE EASY

Steps:

• In a bowl combine the powdered milk, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, shortening and hot water.
• Stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved.
• In another bowl, combine the yeast, 1/3 cup of water and 1/8 teaspoon of sugar. Let it sit until the yeast has dissolved and begins to foam.
• Add the yeast mixture to the powdered milk mixture.
• Add flour and mix thoroughly.
• Cover and let rise for 60 minutes.
• Preheat griddle to 300 degrees F. Grease rings.
• Fill the rings about 2/3 of the way and let them cook for about 5 minutes until golden brown. Flip them over and cook for about 5 more minutes.
• I can't stress enough, this dough is very gooey. RESIST the urge to add more flour to make it more like dough you're used to.
• I tend to cook with powdered milk anyway, but I can't see why you couldn't substitute fresh milk. Between the two amounts of water, the amount of powder is about right for "regular" milk.