Mr Ed (The Stables)
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Totally agree and shock horror!!! It was invented by a Manchester baker in the 19th Century sometime.
Muffin or Barm
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Totally agree and shock horror!!! It was invented by a Manchester baker in the 19th Century sometime.
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dronefromsector7g
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It's a barm, you morons.
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!
Spoken like a true Manc..
Le Havre Oswald
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Ye but you can also buy blueberry muffins or chocolate muffins?
Muffins = sweet
Barm = savoury.
It's a barm.
"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..
---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999(p. 517)
It's a Muffin..
yorknomore
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Anyone who calls it a muffin is a barbarian it's a barm all day long and then some.
squirtyflower
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You've been americanised
That was my first thought only yanks would think a muffin involves fruit of some kind...
Bill Walker
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Ancoats end of gods own...
Wouldnt like to replace that gutter !!
andyhinch
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Some on here might think you've been labotamised, Im sure thier wrong mind :)
andyhinch
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You've not even got a proper name what the fuck do you know
its a Barm
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ffs
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Around Maine Rd and the true home of the City we all know it was a Barm. If where the Kippax stood it was a barm them it doesn't matter if people in Bolton or Pendle call it a muffin because it's a barm
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If people want to call cakes, muffins in Lancashire I am all for it, just don't call barms - muffins in ManchesterAncoats 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!
squirtyflower
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The true home of City is Gorton, where I'm from, and it's a muffin
Eccles Blue
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I've been on this earth longer than 99.9% of you and I have always known it as a Barm so I think age wins!!!!! ;-)