English Muffin Toasting Bread
This English Muffin Toasting Bread is an absolutely no-fail yeast bread recipe, perfect for getting comfortable with yeast. Plus, all of the tastiness, nooks, and crannies of an English Muffin in a loaf? Yes please!
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 1 loaf 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast or active dry yeast (I always use active dry)
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or olive oil
- cornmeal for dusting pan
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the flat beater attachment, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and yeast.
- In a separate, microwave-safe bowl, combine the milk, water, and oil. Heat in the microwave at 30 second increments, for a total of 1 minute and 30 seconds, or until the mixture is between 120 F and 130 F. I always go by King Arthur's instructions: It should be hotter than lukewarm but not too hot for bath water.
- Pour the warm liquid mixture into the mixer and beat the liquid and dry together at high speed for 1 minute. At this point, you should have a rather sticky and wet-looking dough.
- Grease an 8 1/2" by 4 1/2-" loaf pan and sprinkle the bottom and sides with cornmeal. Scoop the dough into the pan and level out the top with a lightly greased spatula. Cover the pan with greased saran wrap and let the dough rise until it's about 1/4 inch above the edge of the pan (it can be more, as I never seem to catch it in time). This should take about 45 minutes to an hour. Once your bread is almost ready to bake, preheat your oven to 400 F.
- Remove the saran wrap from the bread and bake in the preheated oven for 22 to 27 minutes (22 minutes has always been enough for me).You can test it like you would a quick bread. The top should be golden brown.
- Remove the bread from the oven and let it sit for at least 5 minutes before removing it from the pan. Let it cool at for half an hour before slicing.
Notes
This bread is delicious served with melted butter, if you feel like splurging, but also great on it's own.