Double Chocolate Muffin

Having first appeared in print in 1703 as moofin, the word has since become synonymous with home baking and comfort eating. In Britain in the Victorian era, “muffin men” did a roaring trade of selling freshly baked muffins, crumpets, and buns to hard-working folk who only had Sundays off and little time to do their own baking. The children’s song, “The Muffin Man” dates to a nursery rhyme of those times, when traders wandered the streets of London with trays of baked goods balanced o