DIY English muffins you can make at home
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Z7G8Wy-6db0[/youtube]
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Whether you top it with peanut butter and honey, homemade jam, or a fried egg and a piece of pepper jack cheese, English muffins are a great way start your day off right!
Homemade English muffins are easy to make and scrumptious. You can use dough found in your grocery store freezer isle, dough from your bread machine, or mix it up by hand! I have included the recipe.
I love adding either cinnamon or fresh ground nutmeg and raisins to my homemade dough for added flavor. I know.. I know.. my sister always says I am some sort of freak. I am always making something that can be bought at the store, but one thing that you can’t put a price on is the amazing goodness that comes from making something from scratch.
So roll up your sleeves, grab your apron, and let’s make something fabulous!
Not everyone has a bread machine or the time to make dough from scratch. I wanted to see if you could use frozen dough that you can buy in the grocery store and it worked! Just follow the thawing directions and you are ready to roll.
Ingredients
English muffin Dough for bread machine or to make by hand.
4 cups four
2 tsp. yeast
1 cup warm milk
4 Tbs. melted butter
2 Tbs. sugar 1 tsp. salt
-optional- you can add 3/4 cup raisins and 1 tsp. cinnamon or 1/2 teasp. fresh ground nutmeg.
Add ingredients and put machine on DOUGH setting. If you are an old hand at making dough from scratch..you know what you knead to do… sorry, I just couldn’t help it!
When dough is ready, roll or pat out on floured surface until it is about 1/2 inches thick. Cut out with the mouth of a cup or a biscuit cutter.
Place on a cookie sheet and let rise in a warm, draft free place for 20 – 30 minutes.
Heat griddle or skillet to medium low and sprinkle with corn meal. Cook muffins for 6-7 minutes on each side.
If golden brown and still a bit doughy in the center, put into the oven set at 300 for 10 minutes.
Fork split them. ( to retain some of the nooks and crannies) Cool.
Store in a Ziplock bag or airtight container until ready to toast!
From my kitchen to yours ~ ENJOY~
P.S Your kids might not remember all the tiny details of their day, but they will always remember the way the house smelled when your were making something wholesome and nutritious.
Make a memory. Make muffins.
Have you ever thought of making homemade English muffins before? I hadn’t either until just a few months ago, then as fast as that thought came it was replaced by something else. Well, the thought came again and this time I acted on it and made them. I found a recipe for whole wheat English muffins and thought that sounded healthier and since we eat lots of egg sandwiches here at my house on English muffins why not make them better for our health too. I also watched you-tube videos and looked at numerous recipes for English muffins and they all were very similar in ingredients, but some of the muffins in the dough stage were a lot more sticky than these. As I set out to make these muffins all was going well, I just got the dough mixed up and put the towel over the bowl to let them rise, then my husband calls and says he needs me to come to his work for something that couldn’t wait. I was not wanting to leave my dough in the refrigerator overnight but that is just what I had to do because the time window I had to make these muffins was now gone. For my first attempt at making these muffins I consider it a success and plan to make them more often and maybe with just white flour too. Mine don’t have the nooks and crannies like the popular version found in the grocery store but they were just as good. I think the reason no nooks or crannies was a factor had to do with my dough having to sit in the refrigerator overnight. Also be careful not to over work the dough. It was fun not baking these in the oven and seeing them rise on the pancake skillet. It felt strange not putting them on a cookie sheet and in the oven. I imagine these muffins came to be long ago by cooking them in a cast iron skillet over an open fire.