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All this talk of crumpets and I'm sorry but I couldn't wait for your cake Stranding.

Just had a couple with lashings of butter and honey.....mmmmmmm!

Kay....crumpets are totally different to muffins here.....we can only buy crumpets in the colder months.

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leelai said:
All this talk of crumpets and I'm sorry but I couldn't wait for your cake Stranding.

Just had a couple with lashings of butter and honey.....mmmmmmm!

Kay....crumpets are totally different to muffins here.....we can only buy crumpets in the colder months.

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Strange about the colder months limit. I wonder why.

English muffins in the U.S. aren't like any other muffins. English muffins are more like bread, and are eaten sort of like crumpets.

In parts of the U.S. some things called crumpets have been sold in supermarket aisles for years, but I don't suggest buying them. (I've had crumpets in the UK, which I use as a gauge.)
 
That's just how it's always been here, crumpets are for cold weather...I couldn't see myself eating one when it's hot either.

Muffins here are like a bread too, denser though.....don't have any on hand but here is what our crumpets look like.

Top and bottom is shown. Butter and honey just sink in and through them, nice to mop the excess up.



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leelai said:
All this talk of crumpets and I'm sorry but I couldn't wait for your cake Stranding.

Just had a couple with lashings of butter and honey.....mmmmmmm!

Kay....crumpets are totally different to muffins here.....we can only buy crumpets in the colder months.

iPad 2 3G 64gb
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(Edit: sorry, this delayed by the showjumping finals:-)

Kay--I agree with leelai, crumpets are nothing like "English muffins". The names don't help. What we have known traditionally here as just "muffins" are yeast based and baked. The word "muffin" has been hijacked by those huge cakey things in paper cases, hence the need for the "English" addition.

Here's a link to a photo that I reckon are quite good looking muffins. Round, very thick, good rich colour, dusted with...not sure what it's called: not flour but a coarser, gritty dusting, some sort of meal, a quite distinctive covering. Looks softish & bread-like inside.

You BREAK them apart and toast the halves. If you cut them with a knife, they are too smooth & taste completely wrong:-)

Crumpets always used to be winter months only here too, but now we can get them all year. To be honest, I'm not keen on the factory fraud versions...But home made are the Real real deal.

And leelai, you have it spot on....delicious with butter & honey or marmalade. I'm drooling again:-):-):-)

But NOT maple you-know-what under ANY circumstances.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=en...hl=en&client=safari#biv=i|2;d|G2z3OIVeydCh2M:
 
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stranding said:
Kay--I agree with leelai, crumpets are nothing like "English muffins".
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I've had both and they seem similar to me, lol. I'm not saying they're the same thing. (I mentioned earlier that the closest North American equivalent to a crumpet is an English muffin.)


I'm apparently not alone in drawing the comparison:

<< The English muffin as it is known in the United States more closely resembles a crumpet than the muffin produced in Britain in that it has holes on the upper surface. In both cases this is due to the fact that a batter rather than a dough is used resulting in bubbles of gas, produced by the leaven, breaking the surface as the cake cooks. The muffin dough used in Britain is slightly firmer in texture preventing this from occurring. Other than moisture content, there is little difference between a muffin dough and a crumpet batter. >>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin_(English)
 
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Kaykaykay said:
I've had both and they seem similar to me, lol. I'm not saying they're the same thing. (I mentioned earlier that the closest North American equivalent to a crumpet is an English muffin.)

I'm apparently not alone in drawing the comparison:

<< The English muffin as it is known in the United States more closely resembles a crumpet than the muffin produced in Britain in that it has holes on the upper surface. In both cases this is due to the fact that a batter rather than a dough is used resulting in bubbles of gas, produced by the leaven, breaking the surface as the cake cooks. The muffin dough used in Britain is slightly firmer in texture preventing this from occurring. Other than moisture content, there is little difference between a muffin dough and a crumpet batter. >>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin_(English)
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How very odd! Holes in muffins? Interesting.
Obviously there are more differences between them than we know here. Which makes the names even more confusing!

And to muddy the waters, the word "crumpet" here also means ... errmm...look here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit_of_crumpet
 
stranding said:
How very odd! Holes in muffins? Interesting.
Obviously there are more differences between them than we know here. Which makes the names even more confusing!
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What I notice from traveling and trying many foods: There are many variations of the same foods, even within a country or a culture, much less among countries.

I consider myself allied to no food culture: I'll eat whatever is good, whenever I like, lol. So I'll have a crumpet no matter the season or time of day, if I feel like it. I don't see need to compartmentalize food. Yesterday, I had fondue for breakfast, and I often have dessert first, lol.
 
I was curious about crumpets and winter, so went searching. It looks like it might be because they were traditionally toasted by the fire.
 
Kaykaykay said:
What I notice from traveling and trying many foods: There are many variations of the same foods, even within a country or a culture, much less among countries.

I consider myself allied to no food culture: I'll eat whatever is good, whenever I like, lol. So I'll have a crumpet no matter the season or time of day, if I feel like it. I don't see need to compartmentalize food. Yesterday, I had fondue for breakfast, and I often have dessert first, lol.
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Mmm. I see. A Food Anarchist:-)

But I'm with you. I'm one of those who don't have to worry about too much intake, but the complete opposite. Plus the basic rules of nutrition.

Most of the time, I don't eat & it's a luxury to be hungry...yeah, sounds very odd but true. So anything I fancy, whenever that is, might get eaten. If I can be bothered.

But all that annoys others intensely. Completely understandable. So just between us two, then? Can't face the hate mail...
:-):-):-)

What's fondue? Cheese?

Edit: Agree to the toasting crumpets by the fire. Seems logical that was the original reason.
 
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stranding said:
Mmm. I see. A Food Anarchist:-)

But I'm with you. I'm one of those who don't have to worry about too much intake, but the complete opposite. Plus the basic rules of nutrition.

Most of the time, I don't eat & it's a luxury to be hungry...yeah, sounds very odd but true. So anything I fancy, whenever that is, might get eaten. If I can be bothered.

But all that annoys others intensely. Completely understandable. So just between us two, then? Can't face the hate mail...
:-):-):-)

What's fondue? Cheese?

Edit: Agree to the toasting crumpets by the fire. Seems logical that was the original reason.
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Fondue: Fondue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's hard to imagine being in your place -- not feeling hungry or "bothering" with food. I find food glorious.

I lucked out with metabolism, but am getting older and should eat more healthily, but "should" isn't the same as doing it, lol.
 
Richard Brown said:
The current TV advert for butter and starring Johnny Rotten plays on the definition :)

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Here is the ad on UTube.

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stranding said:
Wonderful! That's crumpets to a T. With butter.....& presented to you by a dutiful wife:-)
It does occur to me that tipping it up vertically as he does at the end probably isn't such a good idea!!!

Hadn't seen that. A good reason for not skipping past ALL the ads. There are some very good ones around.
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Except for Gabe who would miss his chin :D

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