Muffin or Barm

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

nowt like an oven bottom Muffin

Totally agree and shock horror!!! It was invented by a Manchester baker in the 19th Century sometime.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

It's a barm, you morons.

 

[blueincy]

Ancoats end of gods own...


Baking history 1964 in the link..

The most popular product by far was the Lancashire Oven Bottom Muffin –selling like hotcakes in almost every market in their area. Harold knew a Good Thing when he saw it and went into partnership with one of his former suppliers, Arthur Leigh, who had a bakery on Ashton Old Road in Manchester – Building the whole business around the now famous Oven Bottom Muffin!

 

[blueincy]

That inbreeding must stretch down from Collyhurst to Moston Lane, 'cos they were fuckin' muffins at the Rochdale Road end. Anyway, we are not inbreeds we are 'inbreads'. We know our muffins from foreign muck!

Spoken like a true Manc..

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

How is this debate still going on? How is this a debate. MUFFIN. Go to asda eastlands tonight and, go to the bread aisle, pickup a pack of MUFFINS, you can't pickup a packet of BARMS.

Ye but you can also buy blueberry muffins or chocolate muffins?
Muffins = sweet
Barm = savoury.

It's a barm.

 

[blueduff]

We should have voting buttons added to this thread

 

[blueincy]

"Muffin...a term connected with moufflet, an old French word applied to bread, meaning soft....The word muffin first appeared in print in the early 18th century, and recipes began to be published in the middle of the 18th century. There has always been some confusion between muffins, crumpets, and pikelets, both in recipes and in name. Muffin' usually meant a breadlike product (sometimes simply made from whatever bread dough was available), as opposed to the more pancake-like crumpets...Muffins were most popular during the 19th century, when muffin men traversed the town streets at teatime, ringing their bells. In the 1840s the muffin-man's bell was prohibited by Act of Parliament because many people objected to it, but the prohibition was ineffective..."
---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999(p. 517)

It's a Muffin..

 

[yorknomore]

Anyone who calls it a muffin is a barbarian it's a barm all day long and then some.

 

[squirtyflower]

Ye but you can also buy blueberry muffins or chocolate muffins?
Muffins = sweet
Barm = savoury.

It's a barm.

You've been americanised

 

[Tanzeylee]

You've been americanised

That was my first thought only yanks would think a muffin involves fruit of some kind...

 

[Bill Walker]

Ancoats end of gods own...

Wouldnt like to replace that gutter !!