English Muffins

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk
• 1 cake yeast
• 5 1/2 cups flour
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Instructions

1. Scald milk and cool until lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in two tablespoons of milk and add to the rest. Add two and one-half cups of flour. Beat well, let rise until light. Add butter, eggs, salt, sugar, and flour to make a dough as soft as can be handled (about three cups), and let rise until double in bulk. Cut off pieces of dough and shape in large flat biscuits (four inches in diameter and one-third inch thick). Let rise on well-floured board until light. Have griddle heated, and, if not aluminum, greased. Remove muffins to griddle with broad spatula. Cook rather slowly until browned on one side, then turn and brown the other side. Tear apart, toast, and spread with melted butter.