{"id":8039,"date":"2005-12-02T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coquinaria.nl\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2019-12-01T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T09:32:11","slug":"dutch-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coquinaria.nl\/en\/dutch-muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch muffins with speculaas spices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are two kinds of muffins, English ones, and American muffins.
\nMuffins originate from England, but are also very popular in the United States. They were first mentioned in the eighteenth century.The English muffin is made from a yeast-dough that is baked on a griddle on the stove instead of in the oven. After baking the muffin is split open with the fingers, butter is inserted, and the muffin is closed again. Then you eat the muffin while it is still warm, butter dripping down your chin.<\/p>\n

The American muffin is made from a batter with baking powder that is baked in the oven. It can be eaten either warm or cooled to roomtemperature. You can add all kinds of extra’s to the batter, like blueberries, peanutbutter, bananas, orange-peel, currants in sweet muffins, and cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, herbs, olives to savoury muffins.
\nMuffins are fun to make, all it takes are ten minutes preparing the batter and a maximum of twenty muffins in the oven.<\/p>\n

The recipe below is for an American muffin with speculaas-spices. If you wonder what “speculaas” is, look at my recipe for\u00a0speculaas filled with almonds<\/a>. In the Netherlands you can buy pre-mixed spices for speculaas. If you can’t find them where you live, you can make\u00a0your own mixture of speculaas-spices<\/a>. Since speculaas is part of the Dutch Sinterklaas-tradition: here is a link to a page with several sweet and savoury dishes for the Dutch Sinterklaas feast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Baking muffins, the basics<\/h3>\n

Baking muffins can’t go wrong, as long as you keep the following tips in mind.<\/p>\n