English Muffins

Once again Our resident Baker Mrs Julie Boulton has tried her hand at her favourite recipe from this weeks Great British Bake Off. This week was Bread week, more importantly it was muffins. Who doesn't love Muffins? I ask you! Who!?

Below you'll find the recipe for the delicious muffins along with the Preparation method. 

Because we at Dentons Catering Equipment love you guys so much we're alos going to tell you what you'll need to bake these lovely muffins and exactly where you can buy them *cough Dentons cough*

Enjoy!!!

Tools

Mixing Bowl

Muffin Pan

Cooling Rack

Mixer

Rolling Pin

Frypans

Ingredients

• 300g/10½ oz strong white bread flour, plus extra for flouring
• 6g fast-action yeast
• 6g salt
• 15g/½oz sugar
• 15g/½oz softened butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 medium free-range egg (about 22g/¾oz), lightly beaten
• 170ml/6fl oz milk (should make a soft dough – you can add up to about 30ml/1floz extra if needed)
• oil, for greasing
• 15g/½oz semolina or polenta

Preparation method

1. Tip the flour into a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle the yeast on one side of the flour and the salt into the other side of the flour. Add the sugar, butter, egg and milk, then mix all the ingredients together to form a soft dough.
2. Turn the mixture out of the bowl onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes, or until soft, smooth and stretchy.
   Technique: Kneading bread with oil
   Watch technique1:01 mins
3. Lightly grease a large bowl with oil. Place the dough in the oiled bowl, cover and leave to prove for at least one hour to double in size.
4. Tip the dough out onto the work surface and roll out to about 1.5cm/¾in thick. Leave to stand on the work surface for 15 minutes, to prevent the muffins from shrinking.
5. Dust two baking trays with half of the semolina or polenta.
6. Using a 9cm/3½oz straight-sided cutter, cut out eight muffins. Place four muffins, evenly spaced apart on each of the dusted baking trays. Dust the remaining semolina or polenta over the top of the muffins.
7. Leave to prove for another 30 minutes.
8. Preheat the hot plate or a heavy-based frying pan on the hob to a very low heat. Griddle the muffins for approximately 5-6 minutes, then flip over and griddle for another 5-6 minutes on the other side.
   
   
   EAT EAT EAT EAT!!!!!