No oven challenge by Pal

well for once I am a bit early. I was rebuilding my starter yesterday and thouhgt "there is enough to build a levain for Pal's challenge" so I did.

Spiced English Muffins.

never made these but loved the ones I bought a few years ago. So I used Wild Yeast's recipe and added cinamon and raisins.

Sponge

110 g 100% hydration starter (made at 2 pm)

160 g flour

100 g whole wheat flour

276 g low fat milk

mixed at 8 pm and left on bench overnight.

this morning at 8 am added

75 g flour

3/4 tspn salt

1 tspn baking soda

1 1/2 tspn cinamon

2 tspn honey.

mixed then turned out on bench. added in 1/3 cup raisins then did stretch and fold / gentle slap and fold until dough was smooth.

pressed out into rectangle, about 1/2 inch thick and cut circles with cookie cutter (about 2 3/4 inch diameter). placed on semolina dusted parchment, proofed for 45 minutes and baked in my skillet on medium setting, 7 minutes each side (actually had 2 skillets going :) - such fun, and anticipation!

Definitely something I will make again, don't know why I haven't tried before given how often it is mentioned here.  Taste is great, maybe next time perhaps a little more honey and a few more raisins, but yum.... tomorrow morning will be toasting some for sure.

Thanks Pal for the push to try something new. It is a very simple bake, but look forward to seeing what others bring to the challenge.

Leslie