Episode 117: English Muffins
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create an exceptional website or online portfolio. |
| 0:07.0 | For a free trial and 10% off, go to Squarespace.com and use the offer code cookie. I'm Molly and I'm Matthew. |
| 0:17.0 | And this is spilled milk, |
| 0:21.0 | the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any. |
| 0:26.0 | And today we are talking about English muffins. |
| 0:30.2 | Purchased right here in our American supermarket. |
| 0:33.0 | Not in England. |
| 0:34.0 | I was so pleased to learn recently that I asked someone from England, |
| 0:37.5 | do you have English muffins in England? |
| 0:39.5 | Because I honestly wasn't sure whether it was some American thing. |
| 0:42.0 | Yes, they do. Oh, are they the same thing that we think |
| 0:44.1 | of as English muffins? I believe so. If I'm wrong I know we will hear about it. You know what we need to be sure to |
| 0:49.4 | discuss today? The difference between English muffins and crumpets. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, you know what? I had that same thought this morning and I was saying, wait, |
| 0:55.8 | should we mention crumpets on our English muffin episode? |
| 0:58.6 | We just broke the crumpets. |
| 1:00.4 | So yes, we did. |
| 1:01.8 | The difference between English muffins and crumpets well crumets are so |
| 1:04.2 | smooth and and like the the holes that the butter drips down into is the whole point of |
| 1:09.4 | a crumpet right mhm mhm but English muffins it's more about the craggy crunchiness. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, you'd also never split a crumpet. |
| 1:17.0 | Oh, I would never, I would never split crumpets. |
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