Crumpets

Requires 4 crumpet or egg poaching rings from your favourite kitchen store.

Yield:
Makes 10. Hands-on time 1 hour, oven time 8 min, plus resting
Category:
Bread and Baking
Cuisine:
British

INGREDIENTS:

  • 275ml milk
  • 225g bread flour
  • 1 tsp fine salt
  • 7g sachet fast acting dried yeast
  • 1⁄2 tsp sugar
  • Melted butteror cooking spray for greasing the rings

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Heat the milk together with 55ml water in a small saucepan until just warm enough to put your finger in and hold it there for a few seconds.
  2. Meanwhile, put the flour, salt, yeast and sugar in a mixing bowl and make a well in the center. When the liquid is ready, pour it into the bowl, stirring with a metal spoon, to make a smooth batter. Don’t overbeat – stop as soon as it’s smooth.
  3. Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave in a warm place, such as an oven on its lowest setting. Leave it to itself for 45 minutes. The batter will rise, forming bubbles, and become sticky.
  4. Brush the insides of the rings with some melted butter, or spray with cooking spray.
  5. Put a flat griddle pan or large heavy-based frying pan over a medium heat and brush with melted butter.
  6. Arrange as many rings as will fit and, when the butter is sizzling, spoon 3 tbsp of the batter into each ring.
  7. Turn down the heat to low and cook for 10 m

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