English Muffins

Name: English Muffins
Yield: Makes 8 muffins
Ingredients: 2 3/4 cups (15⅛ ounces; 429 grams), bread flour; 1 tablespoon, instant or rapid-rise yeast; 1 1/4 teaspoons, table salt; 1 cup plus 6 tablespoons (11 ounces) warm, whole milk (110 degrees); 2 tablespoons, honey; 5 tablespoons, cornmeal, divided; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 2 pieces, divided

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2019

Desserts or Baked Goods

Breads

Making English muffins at home is much easier than you think—all you need is a few staple ingredients and a bit of time.

SERVESMakes 8 muffins

TIME45 minutes, plus 2 hours rising and 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For quicker English muffins that didn't sacrifice flavor or the requisite nooks and crannies, we needed to use a few tricks. We used honey and warm milk for flavor and to help jump-start the yeast, speeding up the rising process. Bread flou...

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