_Muffins and Crumpets_ (Vol. ix., p. 77).--Crumpet, according to Todd's
_Johnson_, is derived from A.-S. [Anglo-Saxon: crompeht], which Boswell
explains, "full of crumples, wrinkled." Perhaps muffin is derived from, or
connected with, the following:
"MOFFLET. _Moffletus._ Mofletus Panis delicatioris species, qui diatim
distribui solet Canonicis præbendariis; Tolosatibus _Pain Moufflet_,
quasi _Pain molet_ dictus; forte quod ejusmodi panes singulis diebus
coquantur, atque recentes et teneri distribuantur."--_Du Cange._
The latter part of the description is very applicable to this article.
Under _Panes Præbendarii_, Du Cange says, "Innoc. Cironus observat ejusmodi
panes Præbendarios dici, et in Tolosano tractu _Moufflets_ appellari." (See
"N. & Q," Vol. i., pp. 173. 205. 253.)