Butter muffin tins and coat lightly with flour to make 12 large muffins, or line the tins with fluted paper inserts.

Yield: 12 large or 18 medium-size muffins.

And could the bakeries of the world please take to heart his observation that "there's nothing worse than a heavy muffin, especially a large heavy muffin"?

It sounds innocent, but a breakfast of a large muffin and specialty coffee with whipped cream can start your day with 1,140 calories and 46 g fat.

Yield: 6 large muffins.

He ordered a large blueberry muffin and one of those unpronounceable coffees.

A large, soggy blueberry muffin stood beside his tiny glass of obviously canned orange juice, and some burnt toast was teetering precariously off the edge of the table.

With five and one-third-ounce or 6-ounce tins it will make six large muffins that require longer baking.

Yield: 15 to 16 large muffins.

His final meal, on Saturday night, consisted of a large blueberry muffin, boiled yams, a bit of rice broth and some bamboo.