English Muffins
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Against 76 English muffin recipes
More liquid than 97% of recipes and less salt than 93%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 76 English muffin recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 97% of recipes: 103% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 74%.
- Less salt than 93% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.
- More fat than 88% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 6%.
- More sugar than 89% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 3.9%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 2 ¼ teaspoons instant yeast* ((1 packet))≈ 7 g
- 1 3/4 cups buttermilk (, warmed (or use regular milk))≈ 427 g
- 2 Tablespoons honey≈ 42 g
- 1 egg (, lightly beaten)≈ 50 g
- 3 Tablespoons butter (, melted)≈ 43 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 417 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1/3 cup cornmeal (, for coating on the outside of the muffins)≈ 46 g
flour 417 gbatter 989 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 76 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid103% · 98th percentile · median 74%
- Fat10% · 89th percentile · median 6%
- Sugar10% · 90th percentile · median 3.9%
- Salt1% · 5th percentile · median 1.6%
- Yeast1.7% · 70th percentile · median 1.2%
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