English Muffin Bread

*Recipe given to me by Katie Bell

This has become one of my favorite bread recipes. It is quick, only needs to rise once and is delicious. It’s even really good on day 2 and 3 which is my favorite part about it. My kids toast it pu and drown it in butter and home made jam and it’s the cheapest breakfast I could possibly give them.

6 cups Bread flour, or all purpose

4 1/2 tsp Yeast

1 tsp Baking Soda

2 cups Milk

1 cup Water

1 Tbsp Sugar

1 tsp Salt

Here’s how I do it, super easy and takes about 8 minutes start to finish. I put the milk, water, sugar and salt into a microwaveable bowl and heat for 3 minutes. The first few times you do this, you need to actually measure the temp and then you can find the perfect time in the microwave that gets you to that temp. The milk mixture should measure 120 degrees. While it is heating, take 3 cups of flour place it in a mixing bowl (hopefully in your kitchen aid mixer with bread attachment) and mix in (on a low speed) the yeast and the soda. SODA, not powder. Make sure the sugar and salt have dissolved in the milk mixture. While your mixer is slowly kneading, slowly pour the warm milk mixture into the bowl. Add the last three cups of flour one at a time. Now, carefully, as soon as most of the flour is incorporated, just at the point where it won’t spatter everywhere if you turn it to a high speed, turn it on full blast so that that it really gets a beating and all the flour is pulled in and kneaded well. Stop it before it attempts to crawl up and out of your mixer, it will, by the way, so don’t turn your back after you’ve revved up the engine full speed. Immediately take dough, roll into a big fat noodle using your 1st grade play-dough skills until the noodle is the same length approximately, as the length of two bread pans. Take a large knife and slice the noodle in half. Spray bread pans with non stick spray, sprinkle lightly with cornmeal. Take half the dough and neatly place in each bread pan. Spray tops with non stick cooking spray (butter flavor, but if you’re a reader then you knew that already) and again, sprinkle with corn meal. Preheat your oven to 400. Let rise for 20-40 minutes (just as it’s rising above the top of the pan, it’s time to bake). Bake at 400 F for 25 minutes. Immediately remove from bread pans and place on a cloth to cool. Do not slice until the steam has stopped coming off of it, but before it cools completely. Smother in butter and jam or honey and serve.

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