Well, I did it again. I fell asleep while I was waiting for the little rise after you place them on parchment paper. I mean - 8 hours later. You should have seen the cookie sheet. The cookie sheet was a solid mass of dough. But because they were in separate sheets of paper I was able to separate them and form them back into balls. I let them rest a few minutes and cooked them up. They turned out great! Unbelievable! Best ever! Thanks for the recipe!
my first time making anything with my first sourdough starter ever and my english muffins turned out great! my family loves sourdough english muffins and these are so much better than store bought. thank you!
This recipe came out great but my dough was very sticky and difficult to work with. I decided to fry them directly on the parchment paper for the first side and it worked perfectly!! I didn't need to disturb the dough at all.
I tried this and had great results. I found that it is easy enough to use a single parchment sheet and then cut it between the muffins later when I'm ready to cook them.
Great recipe. Really well put together. Appreciate the work and testing that went into it. I found my first two were flatter after I tried to pull the parchment off. The balance of the batch, I put the parchment side right on the heat of my dry pan and peeled off after the first flip. Made for a much taller rise and no impact to flavor or color.
Oh that’s a great idea! I’m gonna try that next time cause I have one horrible looking one that ended up sticking (the one closest to the oven go figure lol)
This dough was so simple and easy to whip up which I did yesterday and then baked them up today and OMG so buttery and delicious! I had a massive sourdough day yesterday and today mainly because when recipe testing I always find a smash hit like 5% of the time but so far we have lucked out to 100% home run must be on regular rotations that actually turned out to be packed with flavour and exactly how you wished they would be!
i have tried different recipes from TH-cam BUT this is the real one! Other recipes I tried tend to have too much flour and they are too doughy! Indeed, why spend $5 for 6 Thomas's English Muffins when you can make them better with this recipe?
Thank you for this! I’m about to make a sourdough starter and am planning to meal prep a bunch for after I have my second baby and this will make breakfast so great and easy and much cheaper than buying premade English muffins!
I so enjoy your videos. I learned so much so please never stop doing this. I am new to sourdough starter! Thank you so much for all your recipes and information. My family loves your pizza recipe. Have a great day🥰
I’ll be making these in the next couple of days. Any way one can eat bread, I eat English muffins. Just had one toasted and then topped with cheese and broiled. I have one with peanut butter and wild blueberry jam almost daily. Love them. As a bacon sandwich they’re amazing. 😅
Best recipe I've seen so far! I'm trying it right now (11:30 PM in my neck of the woods). Of course, I won't get to eat them until tomorrow. :-( But I'll let you know how they come out. Thank you!
I love this and am trying today. Suggestion: After flattening out each individual muffin onto its own parchment, shake off or brush off the remaining cornmeal before putting them in the pan to proof
That would be great after they've proofed! However, you may need the extra cornmeal on the sides because the muffins will expand outwards on the parchment paper...
so, I had to mix mine for like 23 min and increase the speed a bit to get the dough to pull away from the bowl. The dough did not rise very much during the 1 hour room temp step. I still put it into the fridge. I assume most of the doubling/rising happens after shaping? You work with the dough while it is cold still, right out of the fridge yes? I have an order of 30 english muffins to get out on Thursday so I am testing this recipe today. Just want to make sure I do it right. Thank you! @butteredsideup
I'm impressed with your outcome. I unfortunately didn't have the same outcome. This shaping 100% hydration dough may be out of my wheelhouse. I actually looked at the recipe 4 times because I thought I had read it wrong. My dough was impossible to shape and so sticky I had to use a bench scraper to work with it. What's your secret? Maybe you have better flour or your starter is not the same hydration as mine. Just an fyi, I bake 3 to 5 loaves of sourdough every week so I'm not unfamiliar with wet sticky dough. I'd love to give it another try but right now I'm a little gunshy.
I'm sorry that you didn't have a good outcome! What type of flour did you use? I use King Arthur Flour organic bread flour. I have had readers tell me that if you use a poor quality flour, the dough can be more sticky. This recipe does rely on proper gluten development: did you knead the dough by hand, or with a machine? If you find the dough is really sticky, you could increase the flour a bit. And make sure your work surface is either lightly flour, or greased before rolling out the English muffins. Using wet or greased hands will help prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. And making sure the dough is cold from the fridge when you form the muffins will help it to be less sticky. I know this dough is more difficult to work with, but the high hydration really helps to keep them light and have all those nooks and crannies!
They look wonderful and excited to try. I have to say it is most likely my age but you speak so fast it was difficult to get all the important details. Thankfully you put all the ingredients to the side.
No, I didn’t! I’m sure it could work, but my two cautious would be: sourdough tends to ferment faster with whole wheat, so you may need to reduce the rise time. Also, the gluten strands probably won’t be as long, so you may need to make a slightly stiffer dough in order for them to stick together.
My dough was also very sticky and I was unable to get them into a nice ball. They are rising now but I am afraid my cover is going to stick to the little buggers. Hopefully they taste good even if they don't look good.
I checked out a lot of sourdough English muffin recipes on You Tube and yours really looked good. I do have a question though. For both the flour and starter, your volume measurements don’t jibe with the corresponding weights. 2.5 cups of flour should weigh about 300g. I also weighed 1 cup of starter and it came to 200g. In both cases your weights are 20% higher than what the volume measurements should translate to. That is not an insignificant discrepancy. Which did you actually use when you made the recipe?
It's been a while since I tested the recipe, but I believe I tested it with both weight and volume measurements. I'm going by the weight of the cup that I measure, which probably is heavier than the official weight of a cup of flour. I MUCH prefer to use weight measurements vs volume measurements for sourdough, but I know that some people really don't like that, so I do sometimes try to include the volume measurement as well. But if you want a really accurate recreation of my recipe, I ALWAYS recommend using the weight measurements! Especially for a recipe like this that is a bit more delicate.
This is my fav eng muffin recipe this time I had a problem of them sticking to the cornmeal parchment as I put them in the pan. I don't know why it was different.
You can, but the results won’t be quite as good in my opinion. You may want to increase the amount of flour a bit to create a dough that’s slightly drier. Without the strength of the gluten from the bread flour, the dough may be difficult to work with without adding more flour. But then the muffins won’t be quite as light, but still yummy!
I tried these today and the whole process was going great but they all stuck to my towels when they were proofing and they all got ruined 😭 they also didn’t rise like your did. I used organic bread flour. But I’ll be trying again with hopefully the right results!
I’m actually working on that right now! I have the recipe pretty much tested out, so now I need to film it and write the post! It will be a little while yet because I have a few other videos planned first, but it’s coming soonish!
It's possible that you'll be able to get the parchment paper back off if you flip the muffins onto the griddle, then leave the papers on until they release by themselves as the muffins cook. But I can't guarantee that it will work!
Hi Ann! I don't have experience with high altitude baking, but here is an article that might help you out: www.theperfectloaf.com/guides/how-to-bake-sourdough-bread-at-high-altitude/
@@cathiebenedum7198 I tried on my cellphone and it would not play. I read the transcripts for the recipes first and found the video on my laptop which played perfectly for me! And the video really explained so clearly for me to follow! You would not regret to view the actual video!
@@ButteredSideUp I tried on my cellphone and it would not play. I read the transcripts for the recipes first and found the video on my laptop which played perfectly for me! And the video really explained so clearly for me to follow!
There are several factors that could affect it. Was it super sticky before it went in the fridge? If so, it could be either the dough needed a bit more flour, or perhaps your flour was lower in gluten than mine. What type of flour did you use? If it only became sticky after fermentation, it’s possible it over fermented and the gluten broke down. Hope this helps troubleshoot!
There are so many factors that go into what could go wrong with a sourdough starter. Here's a post a wrote about troubleshooting tips: www.butteredsideupblog.com/sourdough-starter-troubleshooting/
@@ButteredSideUp I’m pretty positive it’s not my sourdough starter ive used it for many other recipes with no problem. The only thing I can think is that it needed more flour because it was also much stickier than yours or I let the warm water sit out too long and it cooled down
Thank you for the clarification! Even if the water wasn’t super warm, as long as your starter is active and your house is warm enough, it should still rise eventually. My other thought is, what brand and type of flour did you use? If the flour is low on gluten, the dough may not become elastic enough and not rise properly.
That sounds frustrating! Did you do the method where you cut individual squares of parchment? If you use that method, you can actually flip them onto the griddle, and then wait for the dough to cook a bit before removing the parchment. Also, with sourdough or any yeasted bread recipe, there are some variables that can lead to sticky dough. For some examples, if your flour has a low gluten content, it can be difficult to get it to develop the gluten properly, and the dough won't hold together very well. Also, the humidity of your house can affect how much flour you need to use. If the dough wasn't kneaded long enough, this can also of course affect how stretchy the dough is. And finally, with sourdough, if it over ferments it can actually break down the gluten, resulting in a really sticky dough. When I was first baking with sourdough, I was shocked when my dough became sticky after fermenting a loaf for a long time.
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Well, I did it again. I fell asleep while I was waiting for the little rise after you place them on parchment paper. I mean - 8 hours later. You should have seen the cookie sheet. The cookie sheet was a solid mass of dough. But because they were in separate sheets of paper I was able to separate them and form them back into balls. I let them rest a few minutes and cooked them up. They turned out great! Unbelievable! Best ever! Thanks for the recipe!
This made me laugh the first time I made these. I did close to the same thing, and they turned out amazing.
my first time making anything with my first sourdough starter ever and my english muffins turned out great! my family loves sourdough english muffins and these are so much better than store bought. thank you!
This recipe came out great but my dough was very sticky and difficult to work with. I decided to fry them directly on the parchment paper for the first side and it worked perfectly!! I didn't need to disturb the dough at all.
Smart idea! I've seen some people start cooking fish that way.
Good idea
I tried this and had great results. I found that it is easy enough to use a single parchment sheet and then cut it between the muffins later when I'm ready to cook them.
That's a great idea! Thank you for sharing what you did!
I just finished mixing my dough and I am waiting for the hour to put it in the fridge overnight.
Such a terrific tutorial. Thank you.
You are so NOT annoying, thanks for the recipe. I will let you know how they turned out
Although I messed up and used regular flour, these were a hit. No more throwing out sourdough discard! Big thanks!
This is truly the best sourdough English muffin recipe! Absolutely delicious! ❤
I really got so much from your straightforward presentation. Keep it up, you're very talented.
Aw, thank you! Glad it helped!
I baked a batch of these this morning, and they came out perfect. Thanks for the video!
I just shaped my muffins and the next time I will use my scale. Thank you for a wonderful tutorial.
Great recipe. Really well put together. Appreciate the work and testing that went into it.
I found my first two were flatter after I tried to pull the parchment off.
The balance of the batch, I put the parchment side right on the heat of my dry pan and peeled off after the first flip.
Made for a much taller rise and no impact to flavor or color.
Oh that’s a great idea! I’m gonna try that next time cause I have one horrible looking one that ended up sticking (the one closest to the oven go figure lol)
I’m a forker. I’m making these today. They are currently proofing. So excited to see and taste how they come out.
Really pleasant, excellent presentation! To the point while not leaving anything out. Thanks!
This dough was so simple and easy to whip up which I did yesterday and then baked them up today and OMG so buttery and delicious!
I had a massive sourdough day yesterday and today mainly because when recipe testing I always find a smash hit like 5% of the time but so far we have lucked out to 100% home run must be on regular rotations that actually turned out to be packed with flavour and exactly how you wished they would be!
i have tried different recipes from TH-cam BUT this is the real one! Other recipes I tried tend to have too much flour and they are too doughy! Indeed, why spend $5 for 6 Thomas's English Muffins when you can make them better with this recipe?
And your idea of having the uncooked muffins on decidual wax paper is brilliant!
And I did not use bread flour...just all purposed flour in my pantry!
I can’t wait to try this recipe 😋 I’ve got sourdough starter growing like crazy and I refuse to throw it away.
Thank you for this! I’m about to make a sourdough starter and am planning to meal prep a bunch for after I have my second baby and this will make breakfast so great and easy and much cheaper than buying premade English muffins!
We absolutely love these English muffins!! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe in a way I can follow! You make it less intimidating ❤
This has got to be the most amazing English Muffin. Yours look so good. Will be making these at some point today.
I so enjoy your videos. I learned so much so please never stop doing this. I am new to sourdough starter! Thank you so much for all your recipes and information. My family loves your pizza recipe. Have a great day🥰
Thanks for the recipe chef. My English muffins came out fabulous.
You’re a blessing kid
My dough was so sticky. It’s now in the fridge 😬. Will see how it goes tomorrow.
Edit: they turned out amazing! Sooo delicious!!!
Trying this recipe tomorrow... can't wait to try it out!
I’ll be making these in the next couple of days. Any way one can eat bread, I eat English muffins. Just had one toasted and then topped with cheese and broiled. I have one with peanut butter and wild blueberry jam almost daily. Love them. As a bacon sandwich they’re amazing. 😅
Thanks. I like the fry and bake idea. The muffins look great:).
Best recipe I've seen so far! I'm trying it right now (11:30 PM in my neck of the woods). Of course, I won't get to eat them until tomorrow. :-( But I'll let you know how they come out. Thank you!
I love this and am trying today. Suggestion: After flattening out each individual muffin onto its own parchment, shake off or brush off the remaining cornmeal before putting them in the pan to proof
That would be great after they've proofed! However, you may need the extra cornmeal on the sides because the muffins will expand outwards on the parchment paper...
Hello, thanks for sharing the recipe. May I know if there’s any replacement for cornmeal? 🙏
CAN'T WAIT to make these!!!
Hope you enjoy! 😊
I really hope these turn out! Yours look perfect!!
These look so good--thank you for the inspiration!
These look so good.. I'm going to try these..!! Thanks
These are delicious! Do you think you could do a whole wheat version?
Melted smoked gouda on our muffin then a fried egg (yolk thick but not fully cooked). My daughters favorite breakfast.
Excellent recipe , just want to know the temperature of the oven and for how long
That was a great demo. Thanks for taking the time to make it. I prefer toasting mine and eating with a little butter or jam.
Toasting is the way to go! 😁
Great presentation
so, I had to mix mine for like 23 min and increase the speed a bit to get the dough to pull away from the bowl. The dough did not rise very much during the 1 hour room temp step. I still put it into the fridge. I assume most of the doubling/rising happens after shaping? You work with the dough while it is cold still, right out of the fridge yes? I have an order of 30 english muffins to get out on Thursday so I am testing this recipe today. Just want to make sure I do it right. Thank you! @butteredsideup
Is there a certain spring we should be looking for before cooking? Thanks!
I'm impressed with your outcome. I unfortunately didn't have the same outcome. This shaping 100% hydration dough may be out of my wheelhouse. I actually looked at the recipe 4 times because I thought I had read it wrong. My dough was impossible to shape and so sticky I had to use a bench scraper to work with it. What's your secret? Maybe you have better flour or your starter is not the same hydration as mine. Just an fyi, I bake 3 to 5 loaves of sourdough every week so I'm not unfamiliar with wet sticky dough. I'd love to give it another try but right now I'm a little gunshy.
I'm sorry that you didn't have a good outcome! What type of flour did you use? I use King Arthur Flour organic bread flour. I have had readers tell me that if you use a poor quality flour, the dough can be more sticky. This recipe does rely on proper gluten development: did you knead the dough by hand, or with a machine? If you find the dough is really sticky, you could increase the flour a bit. And make sure your work surface is either lightly flour, or greased before rolling out the English muffins. Using wet or greased hands will help prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. And making sure the dough is cold from the fridge when you form the muffins will help it to be less sticky. I know this dough is more difficult to work with, but the high hydration really helps to keep them light and have all those nooks and crannies!
@@ButteredSideUp . I used a machine. I will try with KA and see what happens. Thanks for the quick rely.
They look wonderful and excited to try. I have to say it is most likely my age but you speak so fast it was difficult to get all the important details. Thankfully you put all the ingredients to the side.
These look way better than the "pro cooks" here on yt. Liked and subbed, lets see what else youve got.
Aw, thank you!
These look terrific I'm going to have to try them! Did you ever get around to making the whole wheat version? I saw somebody else asked this below.
No, I didn’t! I’m sure it could work, but my two cautious would be: sourdough tends to ferment faster with whole wheat, so you may need to reduce the rise time. Also, the gluten strands probably won’t be as long, so you may need to make a slightly stiffer dough in order for them to stick together.
i like to eat them... Buttered side up! 😊
Thanks!!
You are so cute, I’m going to try these. Can you use cast off starter and add a tsp of baking soda?
I don’t recommend that for this recipe. I recommend an active, bubbly, strong starter!
Can it ferment completely at room temperature and be done on the same day? If so, approximately how long? Thanks!
Is the dough supposed to rise or double while in the refrigerator?
What’s the temperature in the oven when you are baking?
I’ve always used a knife but I think I’ll try a fork with these
I was wondering how important the 24-hour in the refrigerator is, does it have to be 20 to 24 hours or can it be less time than that?
how long to kneed/ mix by hand? my mixer let the smoke out and no longer worky.
What if I don't have a cast iorn grittle? Can I just use a regular Teflon frying pan.
My dough was also very sticky and I was unable to get them into a nice ball. They are rising now but I am afraid my cover is going to stick to the little buggers. Hopefully they taste good even if they don't look good.
I checked out a lot of sourdough English muffin recipes on You Tube and yours really looked good. I do have a question though. For both the flour and starter, your volume measurements don’t jibe with the corresponding weights. 2.5 cups of flour should weigh about 300g. I also weighed 1 cup of starter and it came to 200g. In both cases your weights are 20% higher than what the volume measurements should translate to. That is not an insignificant discrepancy. Which did you actually use when you made the recipe?
It's been a while since I tested the recipe, but I believe I tested it with both weight and volume measurements. I'm going by the weight of the cup that I measure, which probably is heavier than the official weight of a cup of flour. I MUCH prefer to use weight measurements vs volume measurements for sourdough, but I know that some people really don't like that, so I do sometimes try to include the volume measurement as well. But if you want a really accurate recreation of my recipe, I ALWAYS recommend using the weight measurements! Especially for a recipe like this that is a bit more delicate.
I have no unrefined salt. Do I use the same amount of table salt?
Need to make white sour dough. Wheat just too heavy. Definitely using this recipe.
Hope you enjoy!
This is my fav eng muffin recipe this time I had a problem of them sticking to the cornmeal parchment as I put them in the pan. I don't know why it was different.
Sourdough can change from bake to bake! You could try greasing the parchment squares first, then dusting with cornmeal.
Mine didn’t turn out. They were almost pourable! I will try again though!
Hi! Can I use unbleached all purpose instead of bread flour? Will the difference be significant? Thanks!
You can, but the results won’t be quite as good in my opinion. You may want to increase the amount of flour a bit to create a dough that’s slightly drier. Without the strength of the gluten from the bread flour, the dough may be difficult to work with without adding more flour. But then the muffins won’t be quite as light, but still yummy!
I tried these today and the whole process was going great but they all stuck to my towels when they were proofing and they all got ruined 😭 they also didn’t rise like your did. I used organic bread flour. But I’ll be trying again with hopefully the right results!
Aw, sorry yours didn’t turn out! Sourdough can be finicky! 😭
Do you have a recipe for whole wheat sourdough?
I’m actually working on that right now! I have the recipe pretty much tested out, so now I need to film it and write the post! It will be a little while yet because I have a few other videos planned first, but it’s coming soonish!
Can you use milk instead of water? Would it still be the same amount?
You could, but that’s not the texture I was going for!
Is the cornmeal necessary if I don't have any on hand?
It's possible that you'll be able to get the parchment paper back off if you flip the muffins onto the griddle, then leave the papers on until they release by themselves as the muffins cook. But I can't guarantee that it will work!
Are there different measurements for high altitude?
Hi Ann! I don't have experience with high altitude baking, but here is an article that might help you out: www.theperfectloaf.com/guides/how-to-bake-sourdough-bread-at-high-altitude/
Can I use coconut oil or olive oil instead of butter?
That should work!
@@ButteredSideUp thanks!
I like them instead of hamburger buns
Thanks, eggs and cheese Please...😊
Can you make english muffins with out gluten. I love english muffins, but can't eat gluten. ☹
I'm sure there's a way to do it well! This recipe relies on strong gluten development, so it wouldn't translate well to gluten free sadly.
Can this recipe be printed?
Yes, the link to the blog post with a printable recipe is in the description!
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wow, I had to add almost twice as much flour for some reason.
Wow that’s a lot of work
Always a fork 👍😍
I really want to see this video but it won’t play. Can someone help me view it?
I’m sorry about that! Are you viewing on mobile or desktop?
@@ButteredSideUp on my ipad
@@cathiebenedum7198 I tried on my cellphone and it would not play. I read the transcripts for the recipes first and found the video on my laptop which played perfectly for me! And the video really explained so clearly for me to follow!
You would not regret to view the actual video!
I tried few times it won’t play.
It’s not playing for me either…I’m going to try updating my app!
@@ButteredSideUp I tried on my cellphone and it would not play. I read the transcripts for the recipes first and found the video on my laptop which played perfectly for me! And the video really explained so clearly for me to follow!
Peanut butter and beef bacon
This recipe definitely needs at least 1/3 cup more flour
The amount of flour needed can vary depending on how humid your house is. Weighing all of the ingredients helps!
My dough was soooooo sticky even after being in tthe frig over night. Why??????
There are several factors that could affect it. Was it super sticky before it went in the fridge? If so, it could be either the dough needed a bit more flour, or perhaps your flour was lower in gluten than mine. What type of flour did you use? If it only became sticky after fermentation, it’s possible it over fermented and the gluten broke down. Hope this helps troubleshoot!
Where is the actual recipe like the amounts?
On the blog! www.butteredsideupblog.com/sourdough-english-muffins/
These didn’t rise for me at all not sure why… maybe my water wasn’t warm enough?
There are so many factors that go into what could go wrong with a sourdough starter. Here's a post a wrote about troubleshooting tips: www.butteredsideupblog.com/sourdough-starter-troubleshooting/
@@ButteredSideUp I’m pretty positive it’s not my sourdough starter ive used it for many other recipes with no problem. The only thing I can think is that it needed more flour because it was also much stickier than yours or I let the warm water sit out too long and it cooled down
Thank you for the clarification! Even if the water wasn’t super warm, as long as your starter is active and your house is warm enough, it should still rise eventually. My other thought is, what brand and type of flour did you use? If the flour is low on gluten, the dough may not become elastic enough and not rise properly.
@@ButteredSideUp I think the brand is central milling, my house was also pretty cold when I made it so that’s probably a factor
Was it bread flour, or all purpose flour? Also, was it conventional or organically grown?
What happened to this video I was looking forward to watching it?
I think it’s a glitch on TH-cam’s end. 😭
You could try playing it on a computer…
It works for me if I stream cast it to my tv
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An Awful recipe ! Threw away all the dough cuz it was so sticky that I could not move the muffins onto a skillet !
That sounds frustrating! Did you do the method where you cut individual squares of parchment? If you use that method, you can actually flip them onto the griddle, and then wait for the dough to cook a bit before removing the parchment. Also, with sourdough or any yeasted bread recipe, there are some variables that can lead to sticky dough. For some examples, if your flour has a low gluten content, it can be difficult to get it to develop the gluten properly, and the dough won't hold together very well. Also, the humidity of your house can affect how much flour you need to use. If the dough wasn't kneaded long enough, this can also of course affect how stretchy the dough is. And finally, with sourdough, if it over ferments it can actually break down the gluten, resulting in a really sticky dough. When I was first baking with sourdough, I was shocked when my dough became sticky after fermenting a loaf for a long time.
@@ButteredSideUp thanks for your suggestions, though !