ENGLISH MUFFINS

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ENGLISH MUFFINS

1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp. Oil ( flavorless oil)
2 3/4 cup flour

Pour the warm water into a large bowl. Add the sugar and stir well. Then sprinkle the one tsp. yeast over the top of the water. No need to stir.
Cover bowl and let sit for 10 minutes.

Then add the oil and salt, stir.
Add half of the flour stir then add the rest.

Just mix with a spoon and knead with your hands.
It's a fairly sticky dough.

Flour a surface and knead 3 to 4 minutes.

Lightly grease a bowl, place dough into bowl cover and let rise for an hour or until doubled in size.

Before taking the dough from the bowl sprinkle the counter with flour, the dough is sticky so you will need it.

In another spot sprinkle cornmeal.
Not Jiffy mix but cornmeal.

Knead dough in flour about ten times.

Roll it into a log shape not real thin.

Cut log in half.

Slice four to five muffins from each side.

Roll into a ball then roll in the cornmeal.
You might not have noticed but the muffins you buy have meal on them.

Flatten the muffin balls with your hand.
Not completely flat just firm pressure. They will rise again.

Let set for 20 minutes.

After ten minutes put an iron skillet on the stove on low heat, spray or brush with oil. Heat ten minutes.

After ten minutes place the muffins in the skillet keeping it on low heat.

Don't crowd the muffins you might need to do this in batches.

When muffins are in the skillet cover with a lid or foil or something.

Set timer for 8 minutes then check them.

The bottoms should be light brown.

Every time I've made these I've checked them they were brown but I left them another 2 minutes then turned them over and recovered them.
Set timer for 5 minutes then check.

Feel them, you know how muffins feel.
If you think they aren't browned enough or not done give them another two minutes.

Remove to a cooling rack.
They will continue to bake.


After they have cooled go around them with a fork and separate them.

Eat right away or store them.

I freeze them and they do great.

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