Friday, December 18, 2009

Homemade English Muffins


I've been doing a lot of baking lately....not a whole lot of posting.

To prove it...I bring you...English muffins...from scratch.

You may be saying...um...ok...Thomas' makes those and you can buy them in the grocery isle.

But if you have ever had the pleasure of a homemade English muffin, like I did from the Model Bakery in St. Helena, California you too would be on a wild man hunt for something so lovely as a homemade english muffin.



I try not to knock package foods...well all the time...but the truth is...they stink. In fact, most times they are garbage. To prove it, try these and taste them against store bought. It's the difference between eating a piece of heaven and a piece of shoe leather. Its your choice..and we all know...we all get to make our own choices in this country.

But if you are truly looking for something amazing and like nothing you have ever had...make these. I will tell you, they are easy. Mix general ingredients you most likely have at home: flour, water, yeast, milk, etc and you are on your way. The only thing is, you must have a bit of patience as you do with all bread making since it needs rising time. As far as hands on time? Barely any. You measure, mix. Wait. Roll, cut out round shapes. Wait-rise. Bake/fry. Eat. Anyone can do that, wouldnt you say?



I made the entire recipe....it says it yeilds 18. I got less but I made mine a bit bigger than the directions. I also froze a half dozen of these after their last rising. Instead of cooking them, I put them in the freezer on the cookie sheet. Then after they were frozen I wrapped them up in individual freezer bags. Hopefully they will work for another morning!

I ate myself into an English muffin the next few days and decided instead of allowing any of these go to waste...I made them into mini pizzas (like I remembered from Nursury school) and also into little garlic toasts. The sky is the limit....





I used a recipe from Allrecipes. Click here for the recipe. Next time I will have to check out the one from The Bread Biblem still waiting for it's return to my public library.

Enjoy---I know I certainly did.


7 comments:

Heather said...

We made English Muffins from scratch as part of the BBA and they were definitely a test of our patience, but mostly because the dough just didn't follow the directions in the book. Dumb dough. Next try crumpets! I just did them and like homemade English muffins, they are by far better then anything store bought

Sweet as Coco said...

Heather-I was thinking of trying to make them through the BBA too but I couldn't find the book at the library and was growing impatient! I will have to try it next time...along with the crumpets!

FYI-This dough was super easy with no problems (And I am NO bread novice)...Im interested to see what the difference is with BBA?

margot said...

Those look amazing, what a great thing to make from scratch. I have the BBA book, so maybe one day I'll get around to trying them.

I love the Model Bakery! Every time I go up that direction, I must stop in - so good.

kiss my spatula said...

i love a good english muffin. would love to have yours for breakfast!

TeaLady said...

love English Muffins. Yours look great. The BBA ones are good.

Wren said...

Nothing like homemade...thanks for sharing. Great blog!

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Megan said...

these look scrumptious!!! I will definitely be trying to make an English muffin within the next week now...