{"id":7219,"date":"2011-02-01T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:44:04","slug":"homemade-english-muffins-and-stuff-to-go-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/02\/homemade-english-muffins-and-stuff-to-go-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade English Muffins and stuff to go with them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a target=\"Pioneer Woman\u2019s Tasty Kitchen\" href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/tasty-kitchen\/\" title=\" Pioneer Woman\u2019s Tasty Kitchen\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pioneer Woman\u2019s Tasty Kitchen<\/a> had a feature post: <a target=\"homemade English muffins\" href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/tasty-kitchen-blog\/2011\/01\/homemade-english-muffins\/\" title=\" homemade English muffins\" rel=\"noopener\"> homemade English muffins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from making me want an english muffin right then and there, it made me want to make my own.  I read through the recipe.  I really didn&#8217;t have time&#8230;still catching up from last week&#8217;s computer adventures.  But I did have some of the Portuguese Broa dough in the refrigerator.  (<a target=\"the bread I\u2019ve been making\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/2011\/01\/16\/my-almost-daily-bread\/\" title=\"the bread I\u2019ve been making \" rel=\"noopener\"> the bread I\u2019ve been making<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Last night I tried an experiment with one little bit of dough.  It was successful, so this morning I made 3:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/MuffinPrep.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/MuffinPrep.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"423\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 423px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I used a plum sized bit of dough squashed into a flat circle.  Mason jar lid rings were my muffin molds.***  That is cornmeal on the board underneath them.  I let the dough rise in the rings for about an hour while Karl and I had our walk, I had my first cup of coffee and did usual morning stuff.  I preheated my skillet slightly more than medium hot and then plunked the rounds in the hot pan &#8211; about 5 minutes each side.  I let them cool about 5 minutes on a wire rack, then split them open with a fork&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6872.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6872.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"435\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 435px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.nooks and crannies!!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6874.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6874.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"435\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 435px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Toasted, with orange marmalade made by me in my very own kitchen just before Christmas &#8211; Breakfast!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6887.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb11\/Muffins6887.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"435\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 435px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And again for lunch with <a target=\"Spicy Tuscan soup\" href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/tasty-kitchen\/recipes\/soups\/spicy-tuscan-soup\/\" title=\"Spicy Tuscan soup\" rel=\"noopener\"> Spicy Tuscan soup<\/a>, another Tasty Kitchen recipe.<\/p>\n<p>The eatin&#8217; is good in the little house in the woods!<\/p>\n<p>***I&#8217;ve since made muffins without &#8220;forms&#8221;.  And I&#8217;ve made various sizes.  I&#8217;ve also decreased the rise time as they &#8220;rise&#8221; on the skillet while cooking.  So my current procedure is to take a piece of dough the size I want, squash it into a flat circle, let it rise about 15 minutes on some cornmeal and then grill it on a hot cast iron skillet.  For me it is working out to about 5 minutes per side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Pioneer Woman\u2019s Tasty Kitchen had a feature post: homemade English muffins. Aside from making me want an english muffin right then and there, it made me want to make my own. I read through the recipe. I really didn&#8217;t have time&#8230;still catching up from last week&#8217;s computer adventures. But I did have some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21635,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/21635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}