A muffin (US: English muffin), also known as a hot muffin, or a breakfast muffin, is a round, yeast-leavened form of bread almost always dusted with cornmeal. It may be eaten at breakfast in North America and Australia, but may be served as an afternoon meal in England.
An old English nursery rhyme, The Muffin Man, describes a door-to-door purveyor of muffins. The rhyme was known at the time of Jane Austen in the early 19th Century and a muffin m...
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A muffin (US: English muffin), also known as a hot muffin, or a breakfast muffin, is a round, yeast-leavened form of bread almost always dusted with cornmeal. It may be eaten at breakfast in North America and Australia, but may be served as an afternoon meal in England.
An old English nursery rhyme, The Muffin Man, describes a door-to-door purveyor of muffins. The rhyme was known at the time of Jane Austen in the early 19th Century and a muffin man is mentioned at one point in her novel, Persuasion. The muffins sold at this period were made of yeasted dough and baked on a hot griddle.
Muffins may well originate as far back as the 10th century, yet the muffin became a fashionable bread during the 18th century. By the beginning of the 19th century there were dozens of muffin factories in existence and the 'muffin man' was a common sight.
Muffins are a very quick baking bread and have become a tea table staple. They are usually split, toasted, buttered and then used with a savoury or...
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