Stella's Place

I recently found this YouTube channel – Kitchen In the Shire, starring Renee!

Renee has some pretty terrific baking and cooking ideas and recipes, and this is one of them. I can attest to it, because I made these English muffins yesterday. They exceeded all expectations, and are at least ten times better than anything you can buy at the store.

I never made English muffins before yesterday afternoon.

I followed her instructions almost exactly, with two exceptions: I used bread flour instead of all-purpose flour, because I was low on the AP, and I used SAF brand Instant Gold package yeast, which is meant for use in enriched doughs (with sugar, eggs, milk etc.). As an aside, I bought this yeast (one pound bag) several years ago and keep it in the freezer. It is still very active!

IMPORTANT: I weighed my flour. If I measure, I have a tendency to use too much.

My results?

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