Samuel Bath Thomas founded his own bakery and trademarked the English muffin. It was his take on another British bread, the crumpet. Crumpets are a griddle-cooked yeasted breads that became ...
While he originally marketed his product as a "toaster crumpet," by the 1890s they were known as "English muffins." That's odd since they aren't muffins at all. Instead of being baked in an oven ...