Recipe - English Muffins 4

One fourth cup Warm water
1 pn Sugar
1 Envelope active dry yeast
1 One half cup Milk; warmed
2 tablespoon Unsalted butter; small
pieces, softened
1 tablespoon Honey
2 One half cup Allpurpose flour
1 One fourth teaspoon Salt
2 One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
Cornmeal

Sponge: Butter a 4 quart mixing bowl. In a small bowl, combine warm water
and pinch sugar. Sprinkle yeast over water mixture. Let stand until yeast
dissolves and bubbles. While yeast is dissolving, in buttered bowl combine
warm milk, butter and honey. Stir until butter is almost melted. Stir in 2
One half cups flour and dissolved yeast. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Cover
and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes. Dough: Butter a
4 quart bowl. Stir salt into bread mixture. Stir in enough of remaining
flour with a wooden spoon until dough forms a ball. Turn dough out onto a
wellfloured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 810 minutes,
adding enough of remaining flour to keep dough from sticking. Place dough
in buttered bowl, turning once to butter surface. Cover and let rise in a
warm place until double, about 45 minutes. Punch dough down. Divide dough
in half. Sprinkle board generously with cornmeal. Turn dough out on board.
Sprinkle cornmeal over top of dough. Gently roll half the dough at a time
1/2" thick. Cut with a floured biscuit cutter into 3" rounds. Repeat with
remaining half of dough. Knead, reroll, and cut dough scraps once, if
desired. Arrange dough rounds on ungreased baking sheets 2" apart. Cover
and let rise in a warm place until double, about 30 minutes. Heat a lightly
oiled, nonstick griddle or skillet over mediumhigh heat. Lift some of the
dough rounds with a spatula onto griddle. Cook for 2 minutes on each side.
Reduce heat to medium. Cook, turning every few minutes, 1318 minutes until
done in center. Cool on racks. Repeat cooking remaining muffins. Split
muffins in half crosswise with the tines of a fork. Source: Victoria
Magazine, January 1994
Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Gail Shermeyer 4paws@netrax.net on Mar 30,
1998