My timing not the best. Quit eating white flour just about the English muffin.

[boom]

I mastered, ENGLISH MUFFINS!! I was looking for ways to use my sourdough starter, so I pieced a few recipes together, and came up with these. I still make them for my wife's Mah JONG game day brunches, so it is fun. I will cheat and eat one on occasion, but for the most part my resolve is rock-solid.


off to make my egg white and pico de Gallo breakfast. hahahha

 

[Linda0818]

Those look amazing

 

[HeyItsSara]

Can you make them with whole wheat flour so it's not a cheat?

 

[taxlady]

Why don't you try making the English muffins with wholewheat flour? I have been making them that way for decades. In fact, I have never tried making them with white flour. I use the recipe from the 1970s edition of Joy of Cooking. I didn't make any changes to the recipe to account for the whole grain flour. I have made it using bacon grease instead of butter. That worked well too.

 

[pepperhead212]

I used that Joy of Cooking WW recipe back in the 70s when I started making breads! The first English muffins I ever made. That was when my roommate and I belonged to a co-op, and the organic WW flour was 18¢ a lb. How times change...

@boom Something you might want to try as the WW flour in the English muffins is the atta flour, you can find in Indian markets. Even the lighter colored flour can be 100% WW, but you have to check the labels - some will only be 80%, or other less than 100%.
I've never used it in EMs, but it's worth a try. It seems to absorb more water than the same weight of regular WW, so the flatbreads made with it are moister than if regular WW flour is used.

I've also made English muffins with some rye flour, but added a few tb of gluten, to make up for that.

 

[boom]

Great tip!