English Muffin Bread Recipe

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 📋 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 🎥  Video
• 🥫 Storage
• 💭 Tips
• 👩🏻‍🍳 FAQs
• 🔍 What Is Gloopy?
• 📚 Related recipes
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

Reader Review: (5 stars) Made this tonight, and I was a little nervous as I’ve never attempted bread before. Easy recipe to follow and turned out absolutely delicious!!! Was going to share my second loaf with a neighbor but I changed my mind after the first bite! ~Rachel

Let's start with the fact that it's a perfectly toastable, no fail loaf that's done in less than an hour. No kneading, waiting for hours for it to rise, you don't even need to pull out the mixer!

Stir the ingredients together, scoop in to a loaf pan, let dough rise for about 20 minutes and then bake! Yeast bread just doesn't get easier than this!

Homemade English muffin bread is delicious spread with melty butter and honey or jam... but try it for French toast sometime. It's unbelievable!

You might even love it better than regular English muffins.

Here's an easy no knead sandwich batter bread that you'll love, too!!

📋 Ingredients

You'll just need basic ingredients for this recipe - most are probably in your pantry.

🔪 Instructions

This is an easy, no-knead yeast loaf. You don't need a mixer or a breadmaker - just a big wooden spoon!

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

1. Butter two 9x5-inch bread pans.
2. Dust with cornmeal.
3. Add the sugar to the water in small bowl.
4. Stir in the yeast.
5. Set aside until foamy.
6. Blend the dry ingredients.
7. Add the yeast mixture to a large mixing bowl.
8. Add the milk.
9. Add ENOUGH FLOUR TO GIVE YOU A SOFT GOOPY DOUGH.
10. Spoon the dough from the large bowl into each prepared loaf pan. Try to keep the amount of batter in each one equal. Set aside in a warm place to double. Dust the tops of the dough with cornmeal and bake until the top of the loaves are golden brown.
11. Cool loaves.
12. Slice.

Bread machine instructions

I don't recommend a bread machine because this is SUCH an easy recipe to make and I don't think it works as well. You'll lose a lot of the bumpy texture. One reader said it broke her breadmaker.

However, if you want to make it that way here is what you should do..

1. Cut the ingredient measurements in half.
2. Place all of the ingredients in the bucket of your bread machine, or as instructed by the manufacturer.
3. Program for basic white bread with a light crust.
4. Remove when done baking.

🎥  Video

Just click on the image below if you'd like to see the full length video on YouTube. It opens in a new tab so you won't lose your place here.

🥫 Storage

This simple English muffin bread will stay fresh for a day or two if it's sealed in an airtight food storage container and kept at room temperature. From scratch recipes don't last as long as commercial loaves.

For longer storage wrap it securely in plastic wrap, then aluminum foil (or put it in a freezer container) and freeze for up to 3 months.

I like to slice it up, place parchment squares between the slices, and freeze it that way. When I need a slice or two it's easy to get out without thawing the whole loaf.

💭 Tips

This is an easy bread recipe to stir together by hand. I DO NOT recommend making it with an electric mixer because it will get over beaten, even on low speed, and your perfect texture will be lost.

Expert Tip: You can let the dough for this English muffin loaf rise overnight in the refrigerator if you want to save time in the morning or if you prefer to develop the flavor more. Spray plastic wrap with no stick spray and cover the batter so it won't dry out.

• You can use instant yeast - just add it in with the dry ingredients and skip the first step.
• You can make two large loaves of English muffin bread with this recipe or you can double it and make four. I'd double it if I were you — it tends to disappear quickly and you can freeze it.
• Use coarsely ground cornmeal to dust the pans. It will give you that flavor and craggy texture that the conventional English muffins have. If you don't have any cornmeal you can just dust the pan with flour instead. Not a big deal but not as good either.
• Make sure your water temperature isn't too hot nor too cold. This is important! Use a thermometer if you're not an experienced baker.
• Just use all-purpose flour in this recipe.
• The batter should be very loose and gloopy. If you add too much flour you won't have those lovely nooks & craters, crags and crannies! See the video or step by step images for a visual of gloopy.
• Your rise time may vary. In a cool kitchen you may need a bit longer and in a warm kitchen it may be a bit shorter.
• Don't cave to the temptation to slice it and eat it while it's warm. Cool and then be sure to slice and toast it. It makes perfect toast!
• Check out my list of favorite bread baking supplies - they make my time in the kitchen a lot easier!
• You don't need glass bread pans - any kind you have will be fine. I prefer glass but that's a personal preference not a requirement.

I've seen a lot of images for similar recipes (sometimes called toasting bread) on Pinterest. It bothers me that so many of the slices look almost exactly like a slice of regular bread.

As far as I am concerned it's not right unless it has that coarse, bumpy texture (to hold the butter and honey, of course) and distinct flavor. It shouldn't taste like bread at all! It's got to taste like a...

(say it with me...)... ENLISH MUFFIN!!!

Accept no substitutes!

👩🏻‍🍳 FAQs

Here are the questions I am most frequently asked about this recipe.

🔍 What Is Gloopy?

I've had so many people ask what a gloopy dough is so I grabbed one of the images from the video. This is the perfect texture!

It's a very wet dough. Usually if you can't get the bumpy texture like in my pictures you've added too much flour because you're afraid of the sticky dough.

📚 Related recipes

• Homemade buttermilk bread recipe is a simple, no fail sandwich loaf.
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📖 Recipe

Originally published August 2011. Last updated March 1, 2021 for readability.