Why TV and Website Versions of a Recipe Differ

Question

Briana makes the whole wheat glazed muffins glaze with lemon juice, salt, and citric acid on the show...the website recipe says maple syrup, butter, salt and lemon juice. Please help us understand.

Lynn Clark · Accepted Answer

Hi Cindy -
Brianna's recipe is scaled and designed for a bakery so we had to redevelop the recipe here in our kitchens to be more home cook-friendly (and not make 4 dozen muffins!). Often when we look at bakery or professional chef's restaurant recipes, they contain a laundry list of ingredients since they have lots of product at their disposal in their professional kitchens. This is why you'll see some changes between Brianna's version and ours.
In our testing, we wanted to streamline the recipe so the muffins and the glaze shared more ingredients - they both use maple syrup and melted butter. We also make the glaze right before glazing because our version has melted butter in it, which can dry and harden as it sits. Citric acid can be a bit challenging to locate, so we decided to omit it and simply use lemon juice in the glaze and zest, which provided the same tanginess as the citric acid.
I hope that helps clear up the discrepancies! These muffins are truly delicious so we hope you give them a try!
Best,
The Milk Street Cooking Team

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