Recipe - Bays English Muffin Loaf

One fourth cup Instant mashed potato flakes
2 cup Milk; scalded
1 pack Active dry yeast OR two
cakes fresh yeast
One half cup Warm water; (105115)
1 pn Sugar
6 cup Bread flour
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Salt
One fourth cup Unsalted butter; (One half stick)
(melted and cooled)
White cornmeal

Place instant potatoes in a small bowl, add the scalded milk, and stir to
dissolve. In another bowl, mash the yeast and add water and sugar. Stir
well and set aside.

In a large mixer bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt Add the potato
mixture, yeast mixture, and butter. Stir with a spatula until flour is
moistened. Using a mixer dough hook, knead mixture for 10 minutes. It
should form a ball and pull away from the bottom of the container. Place
dough in a fresh, buttered bowl. Cover lightly and let rise in a warm place
until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.

Thinly butter two 8 x 4inch loaf pans. Add a small amount of the cornmeal
to the pans and rotate to evenly coat the interiors. Knock out any excess.
Set aside.

Punch down and divide dough into 2 equal pieces. On a sparingly floured
board, roll out one piece of dough into an 8 x 14inch rectangle. Brush off
any excess flour, then roll into a loaf shape, pinching bottom seam to
seal. Place dough, seam side down, in prepared pan. Repeat with remaining
dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until dough
extends 2 inches above pan.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375F degrees.

Bakes loaves in the oven for 34 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Loaves
should make a hollow sound when tapped. Let cool on a wire rack.

Makes 2 loaves

SOURCE: Lee Bailey's Soup Meals (1989:isbn0517573040). phanneman MCPER
SERVING: 322.5CAL, 6.6G fat (18.7% cff) eatlf Mailing List 1998Jan
Archive

Notes: Lee's Intro: George Bay of the famous Bay's English Muffins in
Chicago had his kitchen create this recipe for me. It is as delicious as
their muffins.

Recipe by: Lee Bailey's Soup Meals Recipe by Gloria Rose: LowFat Cooking
for Good Health (1996)
Posted to Digest eatlf.v097.n026 by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on
Jan 22, 1998