The greatest English muffins are made with bread machine dough, baked in the oven, and then lightly toasted shortly before serving. My grandmother used to bake her loaves in enormous greased cans that were then dusted with cornmeal, giving them an appearance similar to an English muffin. She now cooks with nonstick cookware.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 2 loaves |
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm milk
- ¼ cup water
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tablespoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
Instructions
- Place milk, water, flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and yeast into a bread machine in the order listed, or follow the order recommended by the manufacturer if different. Run Dough cycle. Remove dough from the machine after the cycle is done, about 90 minutes.
- Shape 2/3 of the dough into a loaf; place into a 9×5-inch nonstick loaf pan. Shape remaining dough into a smaller loaf; place into a 7×3-inch nonstick loaf pan. Cover and let rise until doubled in volume, about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Bake loaves in the preheated oven until golden brown on top, about 15 minutes. Carefully tip loaves out of the pans onto a work surface and gently tap bottoms. If they sound hollow, bread is done.
- Grandma bakes hers longer than 15 minutes for a browner, chewier crust.
Reviews
I subbed in 1 cup whole wheat flour. My kids love this bread!
Tried this recipe for the 2nd time yesterday. My error on 1st attempt was mixing yeast with wet ingredients and salt, meaning the dough didn’t rise. Made the whole recipe the second time in the bread maker on 1.5lb loaf with medium crust. turned out very good. My 15 year old sons eyes lit up as he ate it!
This is my second time making this bread. I absolutely loved it the first time and am looking forward to it in toast tomorrow morning.
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Love it!
This is really good. I used two largish tin cans from the recycle bin and while the sliced rounds are a bit bigger than traditional English muffin and I haven’t made a breakfast sandwich yet, the bread makes great toast and I look forward to having my favorite sausage ‘muffin” with a slice of pepper jack cheese. I pan sprayed the inside of the cans and put corn meal all around and the bread just slid out.
I don’t have a bread machine so I dumped all ingredients into my KitchenAid mixer and used the dough hook. When it was fully formed I let it go a couple more minutes, then turned it into an oiled bowl for the first rise. A couple hours later I formed the loafs and let it rise again (took about 1.5 hours to double in size). This bread is DELICIOUS!! And soooo easy.
Grease and corn meal the pans. I used 2 different non stick pans and had to dig it out of both of them.
I forgot about using big cans. I like that its easier sounding than my Muffin bread. But its worth the wait . Don’t try it in stores because you will be sad.
This will be a recipe I will make weekly. It toasts beautifully, and my husband loves it. I let the bread maker mix and proof it, then kneaded I to loaves to rise and bake. It is strange that there are two different size pans; I may try adjusting quantities to get two regular-sized loaves.
I enjoyed the ease of making this recipe and the flavor and texture of the finished product. I divided the dough into two 9×5 inch silicone bread pans that I oiled with olive oil. I’m not sure why I could not have put all into one. The two breads ended up being only a couple of inches high, but still delicious both un-toasted and toasted (even better). I baked an additional 7 minutes to the recipe — worked for my oven. I will make this again.
Made ti exactly to recipe and baked in loaf tins for 20 minutes.Lovely soft crust and crumb. Tastes equally good toasted or plain. Definitely a keeper.
I have made this recipe twice over last 2 weeks and it is delicious. I used self rising, unbleached flour last time and recipe was still perfect. Used muffin rings and made 9 large English muffins. So good!
I baked this in one loaf pan 9×13 for 15 minutes. This is a non sweet bread so yes you need to toast, butter, and jelly is great. Tastes like English muffins.
Loved the way this comes out. Great taste and texture. Will definitely be a regular.
Great! Did the whole thing in my bread machine. Easy! As others suggested, did a 1.5 loaf on medium. Came out perfect. Slices perfectly with a bread knife. We used it for sandwiches. Our favorite bread!
Extremely dense, outside was crispy…..Tastes more like bread than English muffins. Someone stated that getting the dough out of the bread maker was a gooey mess, I agree 100%.
followed recipe and turned out very good.
This recipe is exactly one half of the recipe I’ve used for the last 30 years. I make it every Christmas. Tastes great! One difference, the quarter tsp of baking powder should read “baking soda”. And I’m not sure if a quarter tsp of anything will make a difference. The main thing is making a yeast bread with milk instead of just water. Forget the bread machine; you can mix it in a bowl. One other change, if you use the full 3 cups of flour, it’s really difficult to mix. Use a bit less flour, don’t knead the dough, just put it into a greased loaf pan dusted with corn meal. Let it rise and bake. Toast before eating. Great with just butter or for tuna fish sandwiches.
haven’t tried yet but to answer Tamara it back to the old fashion way of doing by hand, mix and kneed until smooth let raise
English Muffin bread looks interesting. However, what is the process if you do not have a bread machine. I buy muffins practically every week. I cannot send review without a rating, so I rated it a five, presuming it would have been delicious.