English Muffin Bread With Variations (Microwave)

Submitted by duonyte

"From a Fleischmann's Yeast recipe book. This is one bread that does not really taste good until it is toasted, but then it's great. Very quick and easy. I've only done the orange-nut variation, loved it. I am sure you can come up with other great variations, let everyone know!"

 

• Ready In: 42mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 1 loaf
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup warm water (100-110 deg.F.)
• 1⁄4 ounce Fleischmann's active dry yeast (1 envelope or 2 tsp.)
• 1 cup warm milk (100-110 deg. F.)
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄8 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• cornmeal

directions

1. Place warm water in large warm bowl. Sprinkle in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in warm milk, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Gradually stir in enough flour to make soft dough.
2. Grease well a 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches microwave-safe loaf pan; sprinkle with cornmeal. Place batter in pan; sprinkle with additional cornmeal. To let rise, microwave uncovered, on MEDIUM (50% power) for 1 minute. Let rest 10 minutes. Repeat microwaving and resting 1 or 2 times, until doubled in size. (Or just cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled - obviously this will take a bit longer).
3. To bake, microwave on HIGH (100% power) for 4 to 6 minutes or until top is no longer moist. Let stand 5 minutes in pan. Remove from pan; let cool on wire rack. Slice and toast to serve.
4. Caution: Recipe developed for 650 watt microwave oven. If yours is stronger, shorten the time. You can always add time, you cannot subtract it. To adjust times, find the power setting on your microwave that most closely matches 650 and 325 (the 50%) settings. For example, if your microwave is 1200 watts, 50% is 600, closest to 650 - you might add a little time. 30% power is 360, no adjustments in time should be necessary.
5. Whole Wheat: Substitute 1 cup whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour. Proceed as above.
6. Cinnamon-Date: Add 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon along with baking soda; blend well. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped or snipped pitted dates, along with flour. Proceed as above.
7. Orange-Nut: Add 1 tbsp grated orange peel along with baking soda; blend well. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped toasted blanched almonds along with flour. Proceed as above. (I actually like pecans better).

Reviews

[ellie_]

This is wonderful bread (I made the plain version as I had doubts it would work). After it cooled, I sliced the bread and put it on a cookie sheet with some butter and put it in the broiler for about 10 minutes --- delish! Next time we will try some of the versions, but the plain version worked wonderfully for us! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Sydney Mike]

Made the cinnamon & date version of this bread, & was a bit generous with both amounts of those ingredients! Absolutely great tasting as a warm, toasty treat! We had several pieces with a sweet potato spread & more with a thin slather of cream cheese ~ Both very, very nice! [Made & reviewed in Zaar Stars recipe tag]

 

[Chocolatl]

This is interesting stuff. It definitely needs to be toasted before eating. It doesn't taste all that much like English muffins, but it makes pretty good toast. It doesn't really have a crust. It's incredibly easy to make. A nice recipe to have around in case you suddenly run out of bread. Thanks for posting!

 

[ct in ut]

Wow, this was easy, fast & tastes great! I love that there is no kneading involved! Thanks for sharing this technique.

 

[diner524]

Wow using the microwave really speeds up the rising process and the whole baking time, super fast!!! I decided to make a cinnamon/raisin bread. This has a definite need to be toasted before being eaten, as the description states!! I loved how quick this recipe was but the texture and coloring wasn't great without the baking that you get from using the oven. Next time I would up the amount of cinnamon, I could hardly taste it in the bread, but overall a great bread!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe duonyte!!!