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Homemade English Muffins takes 120 minutes to prepare.

Homemade English Muffins takes 16 minutes to cook.

Homemade English Muffins makes 15 servings.

The ingredients for Homemade English Muffins are:

1 1/4 cups lukewarm water
4 cups bread flour
2 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 small egg whites
fine cornmeal

Here is how you make Homemade English Muffins:

In a large bowl pour in lukewarm ( 110F ) water. Add instant yeast, baking soda and 2 cupsof bread flour. Mix till smooth. Allow to sit for 5 minutes uncovered. In the meantime, addegg white into a separate bowl and beat with an electric mixer. You want them to becomestiff and moist. Once the egg white have formed stiff peaks; add to dough batter. Using arubber spatula fold in egg whites till incorporated into the batter. Start to add in the rest ofthe flour, a 1/4 cup at a time. After the first 1/4 cup mix in salt. When the mixture becomesto hard to mix in the bowl. Pour out onto a flat surface. Knead for about 5 to 6 minutes till itbecomes smooth and silky. Add a little oil to a clean bowl and place the dough into thebowl. Turn dough over till all sides are very lightly coated. Cover with plastic wrap andallow to rest till double in bulk, about 1 hour. Afterwards, pour out onto a flat surface. Pressto release some of the air from the dough. Using a rolling pin roll out to a 1/2 inch thick.Allow dough to rest for 3 minutes to relax. Using a 3 inch cookie cutter, cut out circles.Place the cut out pieces onto some cornmeal. When you have left over dough just gathertogether and cut out a few more circles. Sprinkle the tops with more cornmeal. Cover withplastic wrap and allow to rest for 45 minutes. About 5 minutes before you are ready to cookthe english muffins turn on your griddle or fry pan to 350F or medium heat. Spray with alittle oil spray and once the griddle is hot. Place the muffins on and fry. If you are using afry pan you may only be able to fry 3-4 at a time. Fry on one side for about 4 minutes. Thenturn over and fry for another 4 minutes. Do this once more to a total of 16 minutes.Number of Servings: 15Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MCKS_MOM.

The nutritional information for Homemade English Muffins is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 15
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 112.3

• Total Fat: 0.1 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 282.9 mg
• Total Carbs: 23.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1.1 g
• Protein: 3.5 g