The Muffin Man The Muffin Man "The Muffin Man" is a traditional nursery rhyme or children's song of English origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7922. The most widely known lyrics are as follows: <poem> Do [or "Oh, do"] you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Do you know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane? Yes [or "Oh, yes"], I know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Yes, I know the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane.</poem> The rhyme was first recorded in a British manuscript circa 1820, that
Muffin muffins" by English-American baker Samuel Beth Thomas (whose baked-goods company Thomas' survives to this day). The name is first found in print in 1703, spelled "moofin"; it is of uncertain origin but possibly derived from the Low German "Muffen", the plural of "Muffe" meaning a small cake, or possibly with some connection to the Old French "moufflet" meaning soft as said of bread. This photo is a sequence showing the preparation of a flatbread muffin based on a recipe by Alton Brown in "The Muffin Man" episode of the television cooking show "Good Eats". Muffin tins and muffin pans are