Miniscule Conundrum
Oct 18th, 2008 by Ace
What are those granular white things on the bottom of Thomas’ English Muffins? And why are they there?
Does anybody not just brush them off?
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Corn meal?
[edited 10/23] Sometimes bakers will put corn meal on the bottom to prevent breads from sticking, usually freeform loaves and such, not those in loaf/muffin/roll pans. It does seem like there’s a lot of it on English muffins especially.
For some reason I thought this would provoke more speculation and commentary that it did, at least concerning the brush-off factor. But in any event (and as usual), one only has to type the appropriate phrase into the Magic Box to get the answer. It’s farina: http://www.gwbakeries.com/faqs.cfm#brand4question2
All the mystery is gone from life.
Well, now I can sleep tonight, knowing the answer to that question.
I think I should try to make English muffins myself.