In this simple dish, created in collaboration with Hillshire Farm® Brand, your favorite winter fruit is combined with the smoked sausage flavor you adore.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 55 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 9×5-inch loaf |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon yellow cornmeal
- ¼ cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
- 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
- 1 cup lukewarm milk
- 2 teaspoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Lightly grease a 9×5-inch microwave-safe loaf pan and sprinkle with cornmeal.
- Pour water into a large bowl. Add yeast and stir to dissolve. Add milk, sugar, salt, and baking soda, then add whole wheat flour; beat until well combined. Beat in all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until a soft dough forms.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes. Shape dough into a loaf and place into the prepared pan.
- Cook, uncovered, in a 650-watt microwave oven set at 50% power for 1 minute. Let rest for 10 minutes.
- Repeat Step 4 one or two times, until loaf has doubled in size.
- Microwave on high until top of loaf is no longer moist, 4 to 6 minutes.
- Remove from the microwave and let stand in the pan for 5 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- This recipe was developed for a 650-watt microwave. Cook times will vary for different models.
- You might also try adding about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/2 cup of raisins to a batch.
Reviews
This was my first time making homemade bread, and it was very delicious! Thank you for the quick and easy recipe ~
It really good totally worth it
I agree that the flavour of this bread is not that great but the technique is awesome! A very decent loaf of bread in under an hour?! That alone deserves all the raves that this recipe is not getting… Next time I will be putting some cinnamon and possibly raisins into the dough. Maybe use some molasses too!
Made it for the first time, and my kids loved it – it doesn’t have a hard crust like bread machine bread, and at their age (3 & 4) that’s a plus. To me – no, it’s not as great as home made bread I make in the oven, but then again, if I had time for that, I wouldn’t be looking for microwave recipes. It does resemble steamed bread or dumplings as someone else wrote, so it could be used instead of those – way easier to make than steaming! Also, here is what I did with 1400 Watt microwave: To rise: 1 min on 20%, let sit for 10 min, repeat 2 more times To bake: 6 min on 50%
Didn’t come out good. Followed the recipe to the dot but it turned out rubbery. was very hard after toasting it. Definitely not making again 🙁
This bread is excellent! For toast lovers, it is a must try. I plan to make this over and over again. Thank you for the recipe.
This is an excellent recipe! Very pleasantly suprised
Very good, i just had to learn how to set my microwave to half power and the rest was easy. Hubby almost ate the whole thing.
After all the rave reviews, I was most disappointed at how bland this tasted and how dense it was. Mine came out looking just like the picture and I followed the recipe exact; but when I went to cut myself a slice the edges were very tough and it did not taste anything like an English Muffin. I still had almond butter with it and it filled me up, but don’t think it can be qualified as an English Muffin.
Thomas’s English muffins move over! This is so simple and the results are great. I have an 1100 watt microwave, so I had to adjust the time and power levels a bit. I settled on 1 minute at 30% for the rise and 2 minutes at 70% followed by 3 minutes at 60%. This gave me the cooked top and nice moist bread, but I do think I will add 30-45 seconds to the 60% time. Nice job Larry, thanks for sharing.
I followed this recipe exactly. Turns our very dense and rubbery. The flavor is nice, and I like the rapid rise method- but I think this is one that would have turned out so much better just baked in the oven.
Well, I have to say, I am so pleasantly surprised by this bread. It was so easy, relatively healthy (I used skim milk) and delicious to boot! I did 3 cycles, one on 50%, one on 40%, last on 50% in a 1000 watt overn. I did let it rest 10 minutes between those nukes. Then I let it bake for 6 minutes at 100% and it came out so nice. Slices very nicely and toasted up perfect. Thank you for this great recipe, I had no idea you could bake bread in the microwave. Can’t wait to try this in the summer when you don’t want to heat up the oven but would like a good loaf of homemade bread. Thanks again!
I use this recipe every year in my microwave cooking unit at school. Hard to believe you can make a yeast bread in the microwave. Toasting this bread is a must!!!–it does not have great flavor without the toasting process.
How simple and tasty this bread is. I cant keep enough on hand for my house.
I have this recipe somewhere but unable to locate it since the move! I found this in a magazine about 25 years ago! It makes the best toast! Thanks so much for posting it as I have been thinking about making some to start freezing. Fall is just around the corner and everyone would appreciate getting this as a gift!
The flavor of this loaf is pretty insipid, even when toasted. The dough was also quite sticky and needed about an extra half cup of flour to be able to be handled easily, while still remaining relatively soft. Generally, the proportion of liquid to 3 cups of flour in a bread recipe is 1 cup, not 1-1/4 cups. The taste is definitely dominated by whole wheat, and as such, it didn’t taste to us remotely like English muffins. Flavor-wise, it lacks salt, but adding more might inhibit the dough’s ability to rise, so do so judiciously. The grain is too close and fine to resemble English muffins. None of the requisite “nooks and crannies” associated with them. The rising technique was definitely cool, however. I’ll remember it when I need to get my yeast breads to rise in a hurry. Since my microwave is pretty powerful, I used 40% power for the rise stage, and even so, only had to give it the 1 minute/10 minute wait twice before it rose to 2″ above the pan. Interesting premise, but flavor is decidedly lackluster.
My wife has made this recipe for years. It is always in our frige. It makes the BEST garlic bread, french toast, grilled sandwiches, croutons, or just toast and jelly/peanut butter. It’s also great with ham/egg/mock Hollandaise – easy eggs benedict.
This recipe is so fun and easy. My family loved it. I will definitely make this again. Best when sliced and toasted.
Homemade english muffin bread in less than an hour! Fantastic. We like it toasted with butter. Will be a weekly recipe here.
Not great for using as regular bread but delicious toasted. I could see making a loaf once a week and bringing it everyday to work for breakfast…very interesting recipe–it worked perfectly.
made this with whole wheat pastry flour. Used wheat bran for the corn meal since I didn’t have any. I don’t know how much I would say this was like english muffins, but it was definitely good and definitely easy.