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ENGLISH CRUMPETS Makes 8 300g Bread flour 2 ½ tsp Baking Powder 275ml tepid scalded Milk ¾ tsp salt 1tsp sugar 1tsp dried yeast 1tsp oil Mix dry ingredients together, then gradually beat in milk and water until batter is smooth. Beat for 5 minutes to work the flour. Cover mixing bowl with clingfilm (or damp cloth) and leave in warm (not hot) place for 1 ½ hours. Beat the mixture down. Cover with clingfilm again then leave in warm place for 1 hour. Warm a griddle or large frying pan. Rub the sides of some crumpet rings (metal rings open at the top and bottom and approx 3 inches across) and the griddle pan with oil. Pour mixture ½ way up the sides of crumpet rings in the frying pan/griddle Heat on a low heat for 15 minutes. Put under grill to set the tops. Push carefully out of the crumpet rings and put on a rack to cool down – don’t put in a bag or airtight container yet as they’ll go soft, there’s still plenty of moisture in them until they’ve cooled down properly. They should keep for a few days, toast and put plenty of butter on them just before eating!

RunningHammer, I had to look up crumpet rings to see what exactly they were.

Now this is going to sound odd, but when i bought mine I couldn't get them anywhere. Only place i could find them was ebay ... and bizarrely they came from the USA!!! Can't remember how much they were but i got two packs of 4, they were a lot cheaper than $13 each though. So i'd recommend looking on ebay.

I also didn't know how to scald milk, so more info for those like me who need a little help!

Not sure how important the scalding is - i've used this recipe a few times and they always come out perfect so i've had no reason to experiment. Having tried other recipes before that resulted in miserable failures...something tells me that scalding the milk may be important as it may change the texture of the crumpets somehow... Hope you enjoy them, this is what they should look like:

Pumpkin Bread Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup Turbinado sugar 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans 1/2 cup raisins 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon* 1 1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg* 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves* 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice* 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger* 3 large eggs 1 3/4 cups Mashed Pumpkin 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup melted butter Preparation 1. Preheat oven to 350° (325° convection). 2. In a large bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, nuts, raisins, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, cloves, allspice, and ginger until well blended. 3. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, Mashed Pumpkin, and oil until well blended. 4. Add wet ingredients to flour mixture and stir just until well blended. Pour equally into two oiled 8 1/2- by 4 1/2-inch loaf pans (with 2 2/3-cup capacity each). 5. Bake until bread pulls from pan sides and a wooden skewer inserted in center of thickest part comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Let bread cool in pans on a rack for about 15 minutes. Cut around outside edges of bread and invert onto racks. Cool thoroughly. * or use a pumpkin pie spice mix; I mix my own and grind it fresh as needed

Fair trade turbinado should be used in all things in place of processed white sugar. But I digress. If you don't want / have the turbinado, replace it with more brown sugar. I need to try the recipe again using turbinado in place of all the sugar. Brown sugar is really just white sugar with a little molassas added back. Molassas is a by-product of sugar refining. Turbinado is a real brown sugar.

Just started reading the The Omnivore's Dilemma! I'm reading "Corn sex" right now!

Have fun. Your whole outlook and eating practices are about to be changed forever...

Tonight I doubled the recipe, baked it in a bundt pan like a cake and drizzled the still-warm cake with an apple syrup I had made (boiled apple cider, sugar and pectin, could just use honey instead of the syrup). O. M. G.

How is it that your mouth can water when you're just READING about food?

I just found this User Group and noticed the recipe for crumpets. We. , Love. , Crumpets. Looking forward to trying to make our own this weekend! We live in Seattle and we have a great resource for fresh crumpets called The Crumpet Shop. Check the pics, they may make your mouth water. The interior of the shop is not all that great, there's isn't a ton of seating -- but who cares. The crumpets are sooo delicious! Honey and butter for me, DW takes vegemite or honey and butter.

Welcome Jeffrey! Do you ever get the maple butter with the crumpets? Looks so good!