Homemade English Muffins

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2022 · 12 muffins

Against 76 English muffin recipes

More sugar than 97% of recipes and less liquid than 81%.

How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 76 English muffin recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More sugar than 97% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%, about 3.5 times as much.
Less liquid than 81% of recipes: 65% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 74%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 and 1/4 cups (300ml) milk, warmed to about 100°F (38°C)*≈ 305 g
2 teaspoons (6g) instant or active dry yeast*6 g
3 Tablespoons (63g/45ml) honey*63 g
2 Tablespoons (28g) unsalted butter, melted & slightly cooled28 g
1 large egg, at room temperature≈ 50 g
1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 9 g
1 cup (130g) whole wheat flour (spooned & leveled)*130 g
2 cups + 3 Tablespoons (280g) bread flour or all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)*280 g
cornmeal or semolina flour for handling dough (at least 1/2 cup (60g))60 g

flour 470 gbatter 931 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 76 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.