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Does anyone like to eat crumpets?  We bought some last week and really enjoyed them.  I have a recipe and want to try to make my own.  I only have two rings so I will be frying them all day.

Are crumpets fried? I like them, but the ones I have bought look baked, like soft white dimpled cakes.

For a dozen crumpets

1 lb plain flour
1/2 oz baker's yeast (fresh if poss. but dried will do)
pinch of salt
butter


Sift the flour, salt, and yeast into a bowl. Gradually mix in enough water to make a batter with the consistency of thick goo.

Put it in the fridge for about half an hour for the yeast to "work". (CO2 from the yeast is what gives the crumpets their distinct holes into which melted butter and syrup sinks!  :smile If dried yeast is used you may have to wait a bit longer.

Grease some rings or pastry cutters with a butter wrapper. Put a hefty cast iron frying pan onto a medium heat, and once batter has risen, pour about half an inch of batter into each ring.

The crumpets will now inflate in a few minutes (all being well!  :smile: ) and are ready for eating right away!!!

Happy frying!
:grin:
Stella

and I also thought they were baked Amy, you live and learn!

ps what a fantastic idea for a forum.

Fozzles, I think "supermarket" crumpets may well be made by some kind of superheated steam baking, and perhaps have the holes created by pressurized gas.  

Stella

I did make crumpets.  The first few were too heavy so I added more milk to the batter.  I think next time I will put even more milk in so there will be more bubbles.  They were sort of crispy and cakey right away.  I put them in a plastic bag and the next day they were soft and similar to store bought.

There is a Sri Lankan version called pan hoppers.  It is make with rice flour and coconut milk.  It is cooked in a half spherical pans so the edges and crispy and the center is crumpet like.  We enjoy these with butter and beef curry.

sounds marvellous, M.  :smile:  

Stella

Where I am, you can only get the bread yeast you have to rehydrate. The only liquid yeast I've found is used for brewing.

My family eat crumpets and we normally get them from our local supermarket.

I want to make crumpets but...I dont understand theese difficult english recepies.
Like the word oz.
Whats that?
In my country we have dl,litres,grams and things like that.

Im sorry because I did not mean to affend English people by that last note,I just dont understand their cooking-terminalogy.

In the UK &  some other countries 'Imperial measures' are used, although here they are being phased out to Metric.
oz = ounce there are solid ounces & fluid ounces
16 ounces to a pound
lb =pound
pt = pint
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Roughly
1 lb = 2.2 KG
1pint  =  450 ML

When cooking it doesn't really matter which you use as long as you stay with the same system for the recipe.
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It becomes quite complicated when you get into yards v metres & inches v mm miles v kilometers.
I think in Imperial & have to convert.  

Thank you!!!
Finaly I can make crumpets too
*invites Woman from Mars on crumpets*

Thanks very much, will these be cyber crumpets?

Yes,made on a cyber stov-fire