English Muffin Bread

Ingredients

5 1/2 cups flour 
2 tablespoons dry yeast
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 cup warm water
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 1/4 cups warm milk
Butter and cornmeal for greasing and dusting the pans


Instructions

Place the yeast, honey, and water. Set aside.

Stir the salt, baking powder, and flour together in a separate bowl.

Add the milk and one cup of the flour to the yeast mixture once the yeast has proofed.

Blend well.

Add the remaining flour, and beat. You might have to use your hands to mix in all of the flour
You should have a very soft, goopy dough.

Spoon the dough into 2 loaf pans that have been greased and dusted with the cornmeal.

Set aside in a warm place until the batter has doubled and is at the top of the pans, or a little above the lip.

Preheat the oven to 425F

Dust the tops of the loaves with cornmeal and bake for 19 minutes or so. 

Cool, slice, and enjoy

Mary's Bread

Preheat oven to 200º F.

4 ½ c. flour
500 mg crushed vitamin C
1 Tbsp. yeast

Mix flour, vitamin C, and yeast together.

3 c. warm water

Mix - sponge 10 minutes

¼ . oil
¼ c. honey
¾ Tbsp. salt

Mix, add 3-5 c. flour until mixer sides are clean.  Knead 7-10 minutes

Put bread in 3 pans.

Turn off oven & put pans inside warm oven.

Rise for 20 minutes.

Turn oven on to 350º F.  Leave pans in the oven.

Bake for 30-35 minutes or 15-20 if divided into rolls.