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Muffin   /mˈəfən/   Listen
Muffin

noun
1.
A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan.  Synonym: gem.



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"Muffin" Quotes from Famous Books



... one pint of new milk, one pint graham or entire wheat flour; stir together and add one beaten egg. Can be baked in any kind of gem pans or muffin rings. Salt must not be used with any bread that is made light ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... and scrofulous, the other with a wild, careless, beautiful look, evidently indicating Race, are gazing in at the window, not merely at the crowd in the celebrated Club, but at Timothy the waiter, who is removing a plate of that exquisite dish, the muffin (then newly invented), at the desire of ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... PUFF.—A light pudding to which shredded coconut is added to give flavor is a satisfactory dessert for a heavy meal. As it is baked in muffin pans, it may be ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... to hit upon something distinctly new in that way"—she indicated the muffin dishes. "A cake that may be eaten hot ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... the cellars of his neighbors. The faded blue letters, on a strip of wood nailed to the bricks over his door, tell us he is a dealer in "Imported and other liquors." Next door to Mr. Korner's tipsy looking grocery lives Mr. Muffin, the coffin-maker, who has a large business with the disciples who look in at Korner's. Mrs. Downey, a decent sort of body, who lives up the alley, and takes sixpenny lodgers by the dozen, may be seen in great tribulation with her pet pig, who, every day, ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams



Words linked to "Muffin" :   quick bread, popover, corn muffin, English muffin



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