(n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The net or apparent absorption of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus expressed per milligram of intake increased significantly in the oat bran period due to the added content of these nutrients in the oat bran muffins.
(2) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(3) A 40-d control period preceded a 32-d experimental period in which subjects consumed four oat bran muffins daily as part of a constant metabolic diet.
(4) In the last 24 hours alone I have bought muffins, a second-class single to Colchester, two quality newspapers, a dish of luxury nuts and a garage punk CD called Back to the Grave 9 .
(5) Perks for staff on the phones include free packed lunches and chocolate muffins.
(6) Twenty minutes, a poppy seed muffin and a burnt tongue later, I was leaving the place.
(7) Gently manoeuvre these into greased mini muffin tins and top with 1 tsp filling.
(8) Bakery owner Bea Vo, of Bea's of Bloomsbury, who runs four cafes across London, was shocked to discover that "her" invention, the duffin, a cross between a doughnut and a muffin (what was wrong with "muffnut"?
(9) In a study to examine the effects of dietary oat bran on serum lipids, subjects who ate two oat bran muffins a day for 28 days showed a 5.3% reduction in serum total cholesterol and an 8.7% reduction in low-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol levels, while no changes were noted in subjects consuming wheat or mixed wheat and oat bran muffins.
(10) A full-term male infant was born with skin findings suggesting a blueberry muffin appearance.
(11) Spoon the mixture into 6 mini silicone loaf pans or 12 muffin cases, and bake for 30-40 minutes, checking after 25.
(12) After an eight-week diet period subjects were randomised to receive two muffins per day containing either 60 g of oatbran or the equivalent amount of fibre from wheatbran in a double blind crossover study.
(13) This April, there were maybe 100 attendees wedged into wooden theatre seats in a downtown auditorium, holding weak coffee and spongy muffins.
(14) Examples ranged from the Elaine Benes-referencing “what about a muffin place that just sold the top” (from @Seinfeld2000) to the banal juxtaposition of “Iowa is home to the world’s largest truck stop” (by @hannahchin) .
(15) People always remind me - as if I need reminding about custard gate and the elbowed muffin and things like that.
(16) I learned odd things about him: he doesn’t know the plot of Macbeth ; he hasn’t seen Blade Runner and he’s never heard of the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane.
(17) Meanwhile, Hampton Creek Foods , founded by 32-year-old entrepreneur Josh Tetrick, is working on a plant-based replacement for egg yolks to go in muffins, mayonnaise and other sauces.
(18) At the time of writing, the Daily Telegraph had published 73 articles about the programme since 1 August; supermarket aisles groan with muffin tins and piping bags and cake stands come Bake Off season.
(19) The advice is that two to three portions of red meat a week is probably OK and will give you some important nutrients.” Obesity is fuelled mostly by the foods eaten between meals, such as muffins, crisps, cakes and biscuits – all high in fat and made palatable by sugar, said the scientists.
(20) Line the holes in the muffin tray with the 20cm rounds, pressing them gently over the base and up the sides without stretching the dough.
Toast
Definition:
(v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
(v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
(v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
(v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
(v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
(v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favorable effects of up to 25% toasted soybean meal and 3% licorice root extract on the levels of the four enzymes, without unfavorable changes in clinical parameters, might account in part for the chemopreventive activities of these additives.
(2) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
(3) Fifty friends and family came here to his wake and toasted his memory with vintage jeroboams of La Tâche, perhaps the most distinguished of all burgundies.
(4) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
(5) The company previously attracted heavy criticism with plans to eliminate the morning perk of free tea and toast handed out to staff across 230 stores.
(6) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(7) Eat Natural toasted buckwheat muesli, £3 Breakfast choices can be particularly limited if you're gluten-free – this muesli shows they don't have to be.
(8) English wine is to be the toast of the country’s farmers this week, with more than £100m in sales expected this year for sparkling and still varieties combined, the environment secretary will announce on Wednesday.
(9) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
(10) If it was for print, I could have written about the toast.
(11) ‘We were simple as doves, wise as serpents’: Portugal toast Euro 2016 win Read more Has any player been through as many contrasting emotions in the space of a major final?
(12) Four severely and multiply handicapped students were trained to perform four tasks: (a) making toast, (b) making popcorn, (c) operating a clothes dryer, and (d) operating a washing machine.
(13) After the feeding of untoasted soybean oilmeal a significant increase of the secretion volume and of protein outpour could be observed in contrast to toasted soybean oilmeal within 24 h. The heat-labile soybean trypsin inhibitor also caused an activity increase of the pancreatic enzymes.
(14) As for Mr Mitchell, in private his cabinet colleagues were saying that he was "toast".
(15) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
(16) But someone should dig up the pictures of David and Mirket as they toasted the launch of their new party.
(17) Bidisha : Two sexist remarks and one misogynist one At a major literary festival, before an event about military fiction, a posh famous English author smirked to me, "What's the difference between a woman and a piece of toast?
(18) I wish I could be there with you to raise a toast, but I’m in New Orleans, poor me.
(19) He is one of life’s natural addicts – not just drugs, but sex, work, success, avocado on toast.
(20) On approaching the nursing station, they had found a staff member enjoying tea and toast with her feet up on a chair.