Jill, I'm sorry that this English muffin recipe didn't live up to your expectations. This is a very soft, satiny dough. It will not fully "clean" the bowl. You need to beat the dough using the paddle until it starts coming away from the sides of the bowl, and is satin-smooth and shiny; this will take about 5 minutes at medium-high speed. When you lift up the beater, the dough will be very stretchy. In the first set of four photographs, you can see that the dough is very sticky. In the photo following those four, you can see the evidence that PJ had to scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl to gather the dough. 

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