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English Muffin

English muffins are a delightful way to start your day
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 45 minutes
Course Appetizer, Breakfast
Cuisine American, European, French
Servings 8 Muffins
Calories 82 kcal

Ingredients
  

Poolish

  • 7 g Instant Yeast
  • 6 g Sugar
  • 100 g Flour Ideally Bread Flour for better results
  • 100 ml Water
  • 50 ml Whole Milk

English Muffin

  • Above mentioned poolish
  • 1 Egg
  • 200 g Flour Ideally Bread Flour for better results
  • 6 g Salt
  • 25 g Unsalted Butter
  • Flour for dusting

Instructions
 

Poolish

  • Add yeast, sugar, flour, water, and milk to a bowl and whisk well.
    7 g Instant Yeast, 6 g Sugar, 100 g Flour, 100 ml Water, 50 ml Whole Milk
  • Cover with plastic wrap or a tea towel and leave to rise for about 1 and 1/2 hours.

English Muffin

  • After 1 1/2 hours add an egg to this poolish mixture.
    1 Egg
  • Add flour and salt to a mixing bowl and mix.
    200 g Flour, 6 g Salt
  • Add the poolish mixture made earlier to that mixture and mix.
    Above mentioned poolish
  • Add the butter and let it mix
    25 g Unsalted Butter
  • Mix the mixture until it becomes dough.
  • Place the dough on a floured surface.
    Flour for dusting
  • Cut the dough into 8 equal parts.
  • Now make the broken dough into balls.
  • Now place the dough balls in a floured baking tray.
  • You can use pastry rings if you like. In this case, we place 4 Flour balls in pastry rings and 4 Flour balls as usual. You can customize it in either of these two ways.
  • Now sprinkle some flour on top of these flour balls.
  • Cover with a tea towel and leave to bloom for about 1/2 hour.
  • Now remove the tea towel and place baking paper over it. Place a baking tray on top of the baking paper to prevent the dough from rising during baking.
  • Bake in a preheated oven at 230 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.

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