Mike Van de Elzen: Hot homemade crumpets

The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

Hot homemade crumpets

Cook time: 10 minutes

Prep time: 30 minutes

Serves: makes 10-15

375 ml warm water

250 ml milk

1 tbsp dried yeast

1 tbsp raw sugar

400 g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

Pinch of salt

Sunflower oil for cooking

Serve with some Marmalade & soft butter

Combine the water, milk, yeast and sugar in a jug and set aside to activate.

Place the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Slowly stir in the yeast mixture and continue to mix until smooth. Cover with a clean damp towel and set aside somewhere warm to ferment for a hour. The batter should start to bubble during this time.

10 minutes before you start to cook the crumpets, dissolve the baking soda in a little water. Mix through the batter and set aside.

Heat a large cast iron frypan over a meduim heat. Add a touch of oil and spread it around. Drop in some 10cm crumpet moulds or steel pastry cutters. Spoon in about 1/4 cup of crumpet batter into each mould. Allow the bubbles to rise to the surface for a couple of minutes before removing the moulds. After 5 minutes flip and continue to cook on a low heat until golden. Repeat until all the batter is used.

Serve hot with marmalade and butter.

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