English Muffins

davidspd

Hi all :hello:,

I love english muffins (the savoury type) with poached egg and bacon on a Sunday morning.

However as I'm the only one in the house that eats them and they only come in packs of six (why?) I usually put the rest in the freezer, but I have not yet managed to defrost and toast them without them becoming like concrete.

Does anyone either know how to successfully defrost and toast muffins or alternatively have a recipe for muffins ?

Thanks
davidspd

lil_me

I freeze them in little bags individually, tied and defrost slowly in the fridge over night. My friend toasts hers from frozen and says they never go hard.

Cazzdevil

Is it possible to make the dough for english breakfast muffins in a breadmaker?

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, my Panasonic book gives:

1/2tsp yeast
300g strong white flour
1tsp sugar
25g butter
1/2tsp salt
1 egg
150ml water

Use DOUGH programme. Knead dough lightly and roll to 6mm thick. Cut out 8cm rounds. Place on well-floured baking sheet and dust with semolina.

Cover with damo cloth and leave to rise until double in size.

Bake at gas 8 for 10mins.

Never tried these, but might now!

HTH, Penny. x

Lyndsay_21

i go on this website www.allrecipes.com its an american site but you can convert recipes and theyr're was one on here it was called english muffin bread or something but you could just make the dough then shape it into muffin shape

Justamum

Does anybody have a recipe for English muffins (the type you split, toast and butter)? I've got a recipe which I tried today, but they are just like bread rolls.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Justamum

I knew i would find the right book eventually

I haven't tried this recipe out yet -but in the picture they look like "proper" muffins... It is a BM recipe but could soon be done by hand

1. 1 cup tepid water
2. 2tbs milk powder
3. 2tsp honey -You could always just use a pinch of sugar
4. 3tbs butter -melted
5. 1/2tsp salt
6. 3 1/4 cups bread flour
7. 1tsp yeast
8. fine cornmeal to finish

• place items 1-7 in BM in order specified by your manual and set to DOUGH
• when done-tip out and knead for 2-3 mins
• roll out to about 1/2" thick and cut using a 4" round
• knead together the leftovers and repeat to use up
• dust with the fine cornmeal and leave to rest for 10 mins
• heat a heavy bottomed frying pan over a moderate heat
• cook in batches -about 7 mins-turning half way through
• either butter straight away or cool then split n toast

Pink.

Hi Justamum,

There's an earlier thread with a couple of recipes that may help so I've added your thread to it to keep them together.

Pink

spaghetti_monster

Hi there!
Was feeling very pleased with myself as I made a batch of English muffins yesterday and just had some for breakfast (of course I also ate a hot one yesterday as soon as it was cooked....) and they were gorgeous!!!! (Or maybe I'm just homesick and nostalgic from not living in the UK)
Also it's the first recipe I tried from a Mrs Beeton book I got last Christmas:

Warm 225ml milk to hand-hot temperature, sprinkle in 2 tsp yeast and leave it 10/15 mins to get frothy (mine didn't froth, but it was still fine).
Rub 25g butter into 400g flour/1 tsp salt.
Beat an egg into the milk/yeast mix and mix everything together.

Then you're supposed to beat with a wooden spoon or hand until smooth and shiny. I found the dough very sticky (in between a dough and cake mix) and the only way to manage it was sort of kneading in the bowl.

Leave covered to rise for an hour or 2 (or twice its size).

Then "beat" (or I kneaded) lightly. Roll out on floured surface and cut out muffins 1cm thick and 7.5cm diameter. Put on a floured surface, cover and leave to rise for 45 mins until they rise (they look really cute!)

To cook, heat a griddle or heavy-bottomed frying pan, grease it (I used veg oil, very lightly like I do for pancakes). Mrs B says 8 mins on each side, but mine were the required golden brown in much less time (even when I lowered the heat). I was worried they wouldn't be cooked through, but they were great!

According to Mrs B the "correct" way to eat them is to cut them halfway in half, toast, cut fully, butter, put back together and serve "immediately".
(I like marmite on mine too...)

Justamum

alex_w wrote: »

(Or maybe I'm just homesick and nostalgic from not living in the UK)

OK, I'm being very nosy, but where do you live? We used to live in South Africa, but because we have three children we had to come back here - we couldn't afford school fees and medical aid costs. Believe me, if we hadn't had children we would have stayed there!!!

spaghetti_monster

Hi Justamum, sorry only just saw your post...
I'm in Holland, so not to far from home and not too different financially.

I'm very tempted to have a go at making the crumpets from the Mrs B book as the muffins were so good.

Other things I miss are heinz tom soup and spag hoops, also salad cream, golden syrup. I always bring back industrial quantities of tea bags. The baked beans here are quite good, but most supermarkets are quite small and don't have so much choice.