I have been making crumpets for over 50 years.My parents owned a bakery in Manchester where crumpets and muffins were a huge success.I see so many recipes online that have no place in crumpet making.Simple recipe is milk,water,salt,baking soda and flour.This is a standard recipe.
John - don't know if I missed it, but I watched you add a heaping teaspoon of the Baking Powder in but you didn't actually call out the amount, help a brother out! Thanks for the EXCELLENT videos.
I come here to claim those crumpets as savory item too, for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Really good with soft cheese and smoke salmon for example, or avocado and tomato slices, poached egg on top and some buttery spinach! long live the crumpets
They are a savoury item too here in the UK. I like mine with lashings of butter with melted English cheddar on top, but you’re only limited on what you put on top by your own imagination.
As a Brit that lives in the US.. you’ve saved me a fortune. I used to buy these from special import shops but I didn’t realize they were so easy to make. Just bought the little circular molds and I’m gonna give these a try this weekend
@@johnheckles8239 If it's 'crap and soggy', that's because the staff in your chippy are crap and soggy. Any decent fish-fryer, who knows how to fry in beef dripping, will fry the best fish and chips ever; crispy and tasty, never soggy. Just nip up to Whitby and enjoy the best fish and chips in the world, all properly fried in beef dripping. Frying in oil, which is now proved to be a poison, should be banned.
Next time I go to the UK I'm going to take a package of Thomas's english muffins and give them to people and be like "Here, try a _real_ English muffin" 😂
I'm in the US, converted it and made them. They are fantastic and I will make them again. One thing, please post a recipe in the More section so I can print it and add to my collection. A small thing I know but it helps non-cooks like me. I subbed, thanks.
Food porn at its very best. You left out New Zealand on the find em anywhere directory and you need publicly flogging for forgetting to soak them in butter then golden syrup.
Maybe it's just me but pushing those nationalistic buttons while the clusterfuck of Brexit is reaching its final form just turns me off to all this shit.
They have to be double buttered. Once when hot so the butter melts into them and then a second time when warm. If the butter is not dripping out the bottom its not a proper crumpet.
The toasting should really be a secondary process, and better after the crumpets have cooled down and rested after the original griddling. And yes, it is especially nice done with a toasting fork in front of a wood fire.
I'm a fan of crumpets, and they're easy to find in foodie Portland. This will be my first time making them. In that spirit I've got a question: How much baking powder?
Hi John, thanks for the vlog and how simple they are to make.I live in Thailand, 4:47 and the Warburton crumpets are 6 for around £3.35 to £3.50 As much as I love them I'm not going to spend that much money to buy them but to make my own ones.For all the ingredients and the rings came to less than £4. I reckon I will be able to make around 20 to 24 crumpets from one bag of flour. Thanks again for your input.
That looks like an English Muffin like the USA has.Crumpet looks like be good with melted butter / Jam / peanut butter or ..Fried egg on top or Sausage & gravey over it..
I'd love to taste crumpets sometime. Sweden has no crumpets at all, and that is a problem. What we do have is yeast, we also have the other kind, but let's not talk about that. We also lack Marmite, getting it means paying through your nose! Import is never cheap... Let me tell you about the differences in price! Caviar vs Marmite, which one is cheaper? Yes, Marmite is still cheaper, but it's still £5 for 125 g. I can make a three course meal for that! All the best to you, chef. And remember to have some pickled herring at Christmas!
So disappointed in how this turned out. What is "low" heat? The crumpets stuck to the pan and shredded when trying to take them out of the rings. Should the pan have been non stick? How much baking powder? JQ never says. I guessed 1.5 tbsp.
I absolutely freaking love crumpets, despite not being British! It's so great to see someone also so enthusiastic and poetic about them! They deserve all the praise 🤩
I am rather fond of a bit of crumpet. Pork pie, Welsh rarebit, Sunday roast beast with Yorkshire pud and gravy, Cock a Leekie, bubble and squeak, toad in the hole are British foods that come to mind.
Crumpet were my first eye opener on British delicious food as a frenchy. They will be on Christmas table with some homemade smoked trout! Will love to see you on Welsh rabbit, or some trad uk desert like sticky toffe pudding!
Help! Outsides look perfect but inside is unpleasantly doughy - like undercooked bread dough. I cooked the second lot for 20min before turning over and then 6min on the top. Again, they looked perfect but still undercooked. Hotter? Cooler? Longer? I so want these to work!
Sir, I am from Lesvos Island from Greece. Because of my bad English, can you write please, for this recipe, the ingredients, just as they are in grams or ml? I will appreciate that very very much. I want so much to make these for my family!!! Thank you 💗😊 and many greetings from my beautiful country, Greece!🙏😃😉🥺🤗🧓🇬🇷👍 🌿🥀🌿🌹🌿
First recipe? Except you didn't give the recipe. How much baking powder? I feel you have done this to get comments for the youtube hits, so no I wont be subscribing.
Ok folks, anyone catch how much baking soda went into this? Got 450g flour, 10g salt, 15g bakers yeast and 600g of warm water. Thanks! Looks great by the way
Will try this with daughter now she’s back from uni - tried your last few recipes all great will re-do them and photo and this one will try and do a little video cheers 🍻
Is there something more British breakfastish then Baked Beans (not from a can)? And scones with clotted cream please. And these filled things from Cornwell (like a calzone but British). Another one is that pea thing (mushy peas or so).
I love crumpets and Was looking for crumpets recipe and your video popped up I also have subscribed your chanel will be making Sunday breakfast keep smiling keep vloging and keep baking 😁🇬🇧👍👏👌
Balti served atop chips, arguably more quintessentially British than Tikka Masala. Question: could spices like cinnamon or mixed spice be used in the batter or would it be a British culinary heresy? Been a fan for ages of both your work & British classics. Love and Respect from Sydney. Ashes series is approaching, England look great, Go Aussies & have a great festive season in Britain; let us hope it does not prove to be a "Winter of Discontent" 🙂
There's all sorts of batter recipes out there, and a good 50% are using warm milk instead of water. Warburton's use water. Why milk? Will it make it creamier? I'm confused, John.
Crumpets? Never had them. Although you make it look and SOUND delicious, as always my friend. I'm very much interested in this "Best of Britain" series. I've had the odd lemon curd toast and English breakfast but that's as far as my experiences go. Very interesting indeed!
Hoping to make these in the morning but was wondering how many crumpets the recipe makes?! And trying to find the pans that hold the batter, what would you call those? I can only find pans meant for eggs..
Thanks for this John. I've had my 2nd go at making crumpets now and I've nailed the mixture but struggled to cook them. I'm finding that the bases burn before the holes form on the top. I'm thinking I need a heavy skillet on a low heat instead of a frying pan on a low heat.
Yeah John, this is cool stuff. I’m commenting from over in CO, USA and Brittish food is not popular out here so it’s refreshing and interesting to see some Brittish classics explained and done by someone like yourself with modern taste and a respectable culinary prowess. Good stuff. Lot’s of respect, love your channel and keep up this Brittish series idea 👍🏼
You say British food isn’t popular, yet the humble Apple pie isn’t American. It’s English and the first written recipe for Apple pie in in an ancient English cookbook called ‘The Forme of Curry’ which dates back to the 13th century. We were eating apple pie here long before America even existed, as we know it today. The early English settlers brought the recipe over with them and the apple seeds too, as apples weren’t native to America. What you call biscuits are in fact Scones. What you now call popovers are in fact Yorkshire puddings. They were just renamed. A traditional roast beef dinner with roast potatoes etc is English, stews, casseroles, dumplings (cobblers) lemon curd, cheddar cheese and many, many other recipes were taken to America by British settlers. There are many foods that were British, long before they were American.
if you do it correctly you don't need the baking powder... because your yeast should do the work not the baking powder... if you want to give the yeast a start use some sugar and warm water and it will multiply quickly... the sugar will be broken down (you can also use flour) which is just another form of carbs...
Make them! Add to the US collection of pancake-style treats. Or if you're being fancy, make eggs benedict with a crumpet base, slice of bacon/ham, poached egg stacked and hollandaise sauce poured on top. Avoid supermarket crumpets as those tend to have the texture and flavor of sports shoe insoles. Then try making muffins, which are also great if you can get the hang of crisp top & bottom, and fluffy interior. Personally I prefer muffins to crumpets, which could be considered heresy in some parts of the UK.
the top of my crumpets would not cook, the mix was wet and sloppy, even after 7 mins of cooking, this resulted in my tops being flat and solid, any idea why it would not cook?
