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O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern laßt uns angenehmere
anstimmen und freudenvollere!

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Wem der große Wurf gelungen,
Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
Mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele
Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle
Weinend sich aus diesem Bund.

Freude trinken alle Wesen
An den Brüsten der Natur;
Alle Guten, alle Bösen
Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.
Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,
Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;
Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,
Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen
Durch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan,
Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,
Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Seid umschlungen, Millionen.
Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
Brüder! Über’m Sternenzelt
Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen.
Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?
Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?
Such’ ihn über’m Sternenzelt!
Über Sternen muß er wohnen

(Friedrich Schiller)

Oh Sunny morning muffin!

These are fantastic! This muffin became part of our regular cycle as it is so good. The muffins from this era are less sweet, more complex and subtle. We theorize muffins either have drifted towards an extreme of sweet and candy like confections to appeal to our infantilized culture or that tastes have changed. The mature gustatory nature of these treats is likely an indication of their healthful traits.

Reviews:

Reviewer #1: I’d pick this muffin to play on my morning-coffee team anytime. Moist and fluffy, substantial but not too heavy, a great all-rounder. The carrot and pineapple let you pretend it’s healthy. Definitely goes on the All-Star list!

Reviewer #2:  Another good one! This was a very muffiny muffin – chewy and delicious. Nice little bit of cinnamon that went well with the pineapple and carrot shreds. Felt just as healthy as week 2, but way yummier. Probably due to the visible carrot? Anyway, would definitely add this into a regular muffin rotation.

“Looking at the developments of the 1970s, one might argue that some authors chose the second possibility, and that the great yogurt project of symmetry matchmaking lived on in Grand Unified Theories, which were based on SU(5) and other special unitary group, but were eventually ruled out by the failure to observe proton decay.” Borrelli, A. (2022). The Great Yogurt Project: Models and Symmetry Principles in Early Particle Physics. In: Friedman, M., Krauthausen, K. (eds) Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century. Trends in the History of Science. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97833-4_6

nondescript lemon not cake

It is unclear if lemon pie filling is lemon pudding mix. The experience of these muffins blends in with other memories of other lemon muffins but the chewiness is distinct if not entirely pleasant.

Reviews:

Reviewer #1: Subtle and inoffensive. Nothing stands out about this muffin. I’d eat a few if they happened to be in front of me, but wouldn’t go out of my way to get one. Tastes vaguely of lemon.

Love within a cloud, a cloud moved by love
Pervading that same ethereal fleece,
Bringing down drops of rain. – St. Gregory of Narek (951-1003)

Mincemeat muffins are not bad. We don’t eat much meat in this house other than fish and seafood so I used some non-meat (non-fish) mincemeat. The palate in our house leans toward medieval so the cinnamon, nutmeg and mincemeat convey just the right hint of the Avignon papacy.

Avignon is a beautiful city. I had hitchhiked there through Lyon when I was young. I grew up in love with France and Europe, reading the Larousse Gastronomique and the Western Canon. Living in small towns you often see only fragments of the high culture. We have a couple philosophy books in our local library including a old pair of Plato and Aristotle books.

The curious child of the periphery, builds a strange culture.

Reviews:

Reviewer #1: Tastes like Christmas! Also like a hot cross bun, so Easter. A festive muffin. I ate too many and felt a bit bloated.

Spicy

“The question “What is a word really?” is analogous to “What is a piece in chess?”” Ludwig Wittgenstein – Philosophical Investigations p.108

These were a squat, odd sort of muffin. Pumpkin may prevent them from reaching great heights but it gives them a warm comforting taste. We dropped a few off to our friend while they were quarantining or self isolating (we all got used to this pretty quickly) and they were enthused enough to recommend starting this blog to document the project.

People like these. They have a thanksgiving feel and a couple pecans on the top. I myself was a bit of a muffin newbie so these helped shatter my preconceived notions on what a muffin is. Its a pretty decent start to the book and this project.

“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions…After hot muffins, it says, “Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field – a brainless animal, with listless eye, unlit by any ray of fancy, or of hope, or fear, or love, or life.”” – Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men in a Boat: To say Nothing of the Dog

This is our first muffin. It has been a while since I made them as I have been working up the will to write these. So here we go from memory: The Associative Muffin.

The Cranberry Sparkle Muffin is a variant of the muffin we have all the time. I make a standard Cranberry/Blueberry muffin that is wildly popular with all and is the standard to which all muffins must be compared. The recipes called for sanding sugar (the Sparkle component) which I have never heard of and could not locate. Whitehorse is still a small town and some ingredients are not to be found in our grocery stores even with minimal efforts .

The next muffin in the book has reviews from the family and friends but this one was made before our friend came up with the muffin blog idea. This article then mostly seems to be outlining the general features of the discourse while setting a benchmark with this delicious and popular cranberry muffin.

“Well-being for all is not a dream.”

Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

Greetings! Welcome to my brand new muffin blog. Over the next few decades I and my trusty crew of family and friends will be creating and documenting a new muffin each week. Join us in an epicurean adventure stuffed with delicious peril and aromatic tension. When there is no more to tell about the weekly muffin this blog will document related subjects such as whether we can make a portable telephone from cheap electronic parts or what is the best form of government.

Long ago I was born far in the North on a windswept, treeless arctic island. We left this island while I was still but a babe so that time for me is shrouded in mystery and myth. After this we made an effort to live near each of the oceans available in Canada. From Nova Scotia we moved to the Yukon where I continued to age. Once out on my own I managed to inhabit many of our large cities such as Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. I’d like to think living in many of our great Territories and Provinces has informed my baking with a unique Canadian taste but that seems unlikely. It is more likely that by using the Company’s Coming cookbook Muffins and More written by Canadian Legend Jean Pare* I will inherit a bit of that Canadian flavor. *

Join us as each week a new muffin from this book is manifested and consumed. This blog will document the baking process and the effect of the muffins on the volunteers.

I hope you will continue to check in on our little blog as we journey through the cerloxed pages of muffin recipes. Maybe along the way we will find more than muffins since that is the title of the book. Thanks!

*Interesting to note. My grandmother had a beef with Jean Pare. Both being from Alberta, my grandma from Wainwright and Jean from Vermilion. The entire issue revolved around a recipe for an onion sandwich which my grandma could not believe was something that needed a recipe in a book.

*I am not receiving any compensation or political favors for using this book. We acquired the book at our local used book store and bought our own baking supplies. I note this as the muffin blog world has been rife with corruption and performance enhancing drug use. I felt I need to establish this integrity of the muffin research right from the start. Thanks!