Homemade Crumpets

Crumpets are always comforting and delicious, but homemade crumpets really take things to the next level. The recipe calls for a ‘metal crumpet ring’ but you can use any kind of baking ring or high-set biscuit cutter if you don’t have a crumpet ring on hand. They are perfect freshly cooked with plenty of butter and your favourite topping, or you can keep them in an air-tight container in the fridge and toast them whenever you like throughout the week. Delicious!

Ingredients

• 175g/6oz bread/bakers flour
• 175g/6oz plain flour
• 2 x 7g sachets instant yeast
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 350ml/12fl oz warm milk
• 150-200ml/5-7fl oz warm water
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp salt
• sunflower oil for cooking

Method

1. Weigh the flours in to a bowl. Add the yeast and stir through the flour. Dissolve the sugar in the warm milk and pour onto the flour. Using a wooden spoon beat until you have a smooth batter. This will take 3-4 minutes and is hard work, but is essential to produce the holes in the crumpets. Cover and leave for at least 20 minutes and up to an hour. The batter will rise and then begin to fall. You will see marks on the side of the bowl where the batter was before it dropped.

2. Mix the bicarbonate of soda and salt with the warm water and beat it into the batter. Add about ¾ of the water and keep adding it until you get a double cream consistency. Cover and rest for 20 minutes.

3. Heat a flat griddle or heavy based pan. Lightly grease the inside of four metal crumpet rings. Lightly grease the griddle. Sit the rings on the griddle over a medium heat. Drop two dessert spoons of mixture into each ring. After 4-5 minutes bubbles should appear and the surface should be set. Carefully turn the crumpets in their rings and cook for a further three minutes.

4. Serve immediately or leave to cool and then toast before eating with plenty of butter.

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