The third recipe I made with the Tuesdays with Dorie: Baking with Dorie group is English Muffins and can be found in the Baking with Dorie book on page 24.
English Muffins ingredients: water, milk, oil, flour, sugar, salt, yeast, cornmeal, and a little butter.
Homemade English Muffins are so superior in taste to the ones you buy packaged at the store, and they are so easy to make, I don’t know why I don’t always make them from scratch. Every single time I make them I promise myself that I will never buy the packaged ones again, and yet I find myself buying them more often than making them. But really, never again, I’m always making them from now on. They are so easy and so satisfying to make, very little hands-on time to complete the process.
The recipe has you making the dough in a stand mixer but you don’t even really need to get out the mixer as you can mix them easily by hand and the kneading time is just a joy with this dough. It takes less than ten minutes until you have it rising for an hour, punch it down, and let it rise another three hours, form, and bake. I baked mine this time, usually I make them on the griddle so I already knew what that was about but Ulrike was making them on her pizza steel and I thought that maybe I would bake mine as well just to see how that went. It went just fine. I don't have a pizza steel, but I have a pizza stone so I used that, preheated it with the oven to 400 degrees and baked them on each side ten minutes. They are a lovely golden color, I may do that again at times. I made half a batch as two people can only be responsible for just so much English Muffin eating here so six muffins rather than twelve seemed the better part of discretion. Give these a try, you will love the whole process and be amazed at the superior taste and texture, absolutely delicious…you can take credit for every nook and cranny.
If you would like to join in, just make it, bake it, and leave a link to your post at the Tuesdays with Dorie website: click here. At the website you will find the postings for the current recipe, the list of recipes chosen each month, and some baking chit chat that is definitely helpful as well as fun. Currently there are two groups baking at this website: this one, Baking with Dorie (BWD), and one that is in its final year, Dorie’s Cookies (DC), which uses recipes from that book. We don’t publish Dorie's recipes here, but you can buy the book and have them all at your fingertips, what a deal!