Low Fat English Muffins

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 5 -5 1/2 cups bread flour
• 2 (1/4 ounce) packets dry yeast
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup nonfat dry milk powder
• 1 1/4 cups hot water (120 - 130 deg)
• 3 teaspoons reduced-calorie butter, at room temp.
• cornmeal, to sprinkle

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing or mixer bowl measure 3 cups flour, and the dry ingredients.
• 2 stir to blend together.
• 3 add the butter to the hot water and pour into the dry ingredients.
• 4 beat for 2 minutes with the mixer flat beater, or 150 strokes with a wooden spoon.
• 5 add the egg.
• 6 stir in the remaining flour, 1/4 c at a time, until the dough is a rough, shaggy mass.
• 7 if using a mixer, change to the dough hook.
• 8 turn the dough onto a floured work surface and knead with a strong push-turn-fold motion until the dough is smooth, elastic, and feels alive under your hands.
• 9 inthe mixer, the dough will clean the sides of the bowl and form a ball around the hook and move with it.
• 10 if the dough sould continue to be sticky, add liberal sprinkles of flour.
• 11 knead for 10 minutes.
• 12 pat the ball of dough with lightly greased fingertips and place in a bowl.
• 13 cover with plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature to double in size, about 1 hour.
• 14 punch down the dough, knead for 30 seconds, and set aside to rest for 1 minutes.
• 15 sprinkle the work surface with cornmeal and turn the dough onto it.
• 16 roll out the dough until it is 1/4" thick.
• 17 if it resists the rolling pin and pulls back, let it rest for 1 or 2 minutes.
• 18 cut into 3" round (4" for eggs benedict) with a cookie cutter.
• 19 sprinkle the work surface with cornmeal and put the rounds under a towel.
• 20 let rise until they are doubled in size to about 1/2" thick, 45 minutes.
• 21 heat the electric griddle to 325 deg.
• 22 bake the muffins for 2 min on each side.
• 23 do not cook fast each side.
• 24 remove muffins fromt the griddle ro baking sheet.
• 25 cool on a metal rack before toasting.
• 26 pull apart with the tines of a fork, or the fingers, to toast.
• 27 these freeze well and keep for months in the deep freeze at 0 deg.