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i rarely get pb&j to make sandwiches with when im at the store. i like blackberry and blueberry jams w/ plenty of preserves.
when i was very young, we had a plum tree in front of our house. it produced tons of great tasty plums. our neighbor's wife 3 houses down would make us homemade jam with our plums, and we'd let her keep half of it in return. man that stuff was bomb.
once, when I was maybe 6-7, I snuck a whole bunch of plums. i couldnt go in and wash them or i'd be caught but i was 6-7 and didnt care. i ate them right before some swimming class for kids. well, they had some sort of pesticide on them, and right after I got into my suit i began to break out in hives. w ehad to leave early, i was almost totally covered in hives. kind of amazed I didnt get taken to the hospital in retrospect. sadly that was probably a financial decision, haha..
we also had blackberry and raspberry vines, and planted an apple tree though it wasnt old enough to fruit before we left. i wonder if its still there. ahh, nostalgia, can be dangerous sometimes..
In the United Kingdom, "muffin" refers to what is known in the rest of the English-speaking world as an English muffin.
It usually split into two, toasted and buttered.
This yeast-raised muffin is the older of the two, appearing as a word in Britain around the 11th century A.D. Moufflet in Old French meant "soft" in reference to bread.
The "quick" muffin is an American development from the 19th century, made possible by the invention of baking powder. In modern practice, it almost always has a "topping" baked in, such as blueberries or chocolate chips.
Several states of the United States have a state muffin:
* Minnesota — blueberry muffin
* Massachusetts — corn muffin
* Hawaii — coconut muffin
* New York — apple muffin
* Washington — blueberry muffin
* Oklahoma — aar muffin
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also
(the so-called English Muffin)
The Origional and still the best .....(IMO)
This type of muffin is cooked on a griddle, so that the first side cooked tends to be flatter and firmer. Cooking on the griddle causes a spongy interior with many air bubbles. English muffins usually have a white floury band around the circumference and have a bit of grain meal loose on the outside. They differ from the crumpet
somewhat as the mixture is drier and crumpets are cooked only from one side giving the a bubly holed surface top...#