She became fond of English muffins when she was in the US. Is there an online store where I could purchase muffins and have them shipped to her?
Thanks very much
I would like to purchase a treat for my Swiss friend who lives in Ermenswil.
Lidl has 'American' 'English' muffins.
Yes, I'm aware that English muffins are American. Lidl is a grocery store?
Aldi also sells English muffins in both white and wholemeal :-)
Just tell her to go to Lidl or Aldi to get her muffin fix. They don’t do online sales and I doubt anyone else sells them. This isn’t the US you know. Our food is different from yours. You can’t even get decent brown sugar here so I’m told.
Did your friend become fond of fresh home/handmade 'artisanal' English muffins - or did she become fond of Bay's/Thomas's packaged type English muffins?
There is a world of difference.
The former are scarcer than hen's teeth here.
The latter type (ish) can be found at larger grocery chains (at least my local Coop has them) as well as occasionally at the discount grocers like Aldi, Lidl as mentioned, etc. And they taste... like cardboard.
Your friend might appreciate the thought, but perhaps not the taste or texture. I remember my excitement on finding English muffins here - and I remember the let down. Not exactly a 'madeleine moment'.
Why not bring along some of the real deal (whatever sort your friend became fond of) when you next visit her in Switzerland? In fact, an 'English Muffin emergency' sounds like as good an excuse as any to come tour the Alps...
You can make them pretty easily, too. Does your friend like to bake?
Here is my recipe, can't remember where I got it.
Ingredients:
3 T. warm water
1 pkg. yeast
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 C. milk
4 T. butter, divided
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 C. flour
1 egg
Directions:
Combine water, yeast and sugar. Let stand until bubbly, about 5 minutes. Heat milk, 1 tablespoon of the butter and salt in a saucepan over low heat just until warm. Add to yeast mixture. Add 1 cup flour to yeast mixture and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Beat in egg. Add remaining flour and beat until smooth. Cover batter with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
Stir down batter and let rest for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt remaining butter in a saucepan over low heat. Skim off foam and discard milky solids from bottom of saucepan. Brush bottom of a skillet with melted butter. Brush insides of four crumpet rings or 3-inch round cookie cutters with butter and place rings in skillet. Heat skillet over medium heat. Spoon about 2 tablespoons batter into each ring. Cook until batter begins to bubble on top and is lightly browned on bottom, about 2 minutes. Remove rings. Turn English Crumpets over. Cook until lightly browned on bottom and done in centers. Can be served warm or split and toasted before serving.
They're crumpets not muffins.
What are T. And C. ?
Tablespoons and Cups.
(And in Canada, what we called English muffins were crumpets.)
These are English muffins where I come from ( England). They are totally different from crumpets.
Here's a link to the recipe I use.
Aye, yer Coffee's shite too.
Seriously, as far as I know, in North America English muffins are what you call crumpet.
Are your English muffins cakey, or bready?
No, English muffins, in the US at least, are very much like the photo Belgianmum posted. Crumpets have more liquid in the batter. They are flatter and more bubbly, iirc.
Those are definitely muffins, crumpets have all those lovely holes on top to hide butter in!
JagWaugh's recipe is possibly a proper muffin recipe, the one for crumpets is similar but doesn't have an egg in it.
Hmn. At Loblaws they are less than 1" thick, and look like this when cut open:
http://www.oakrun.com/retail-products/english-muffins/
(I broke my regular laptop this a.m., so I'm working on my old Vista machine for the moment, and loblaws does not support either of the browsers on this machine.)
A muffin is about an inch and a half deep, smooth on both sides and slightly bready in texture. A crumpet is shallower, has a flat bottom, the top is covered in 'burst bubble' holes and it's chewy. A unique texture really, nothing like 'em.
Muffins are often split in two and eaten with a filling (or split, toasted and used as a base for things like Eggs Benedict), crumpets are never cut in two.
Hmn, haven't made them in 15 years or so. I sort of went over to scones. I may try it again.
Crumpets are like this. Neither cakey nor bready but rather unique in texture. Muffins are more bread like but with more holes.
Don't really drink coffee but wasn't impressed by anything I drank in North America and as for the tea !
Pikelets!
Muffins don't have holes in them...