Model Bakery's English Muffins

Ingredients (14)

• Biga
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup/ 75g bread flour
• 3/4 teaspoon instant (also called quick-rising or bread machine) yeast
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• Dough
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 3/4 tsp instant (also called quick-rising or bread machine) yeast
• 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 3 1/2 cups/ 510g unbleached all-purpose flour, as needed
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• 1/4 cup/ 35g yellow cornmeal, preferably stone-ground
• 6 tablespoons melted clarified butter (recipe follows), as needed