Anyway, on to the actual recipe review. Just a quick one for today, the Hairy Bikers Family Cookbook - Mum's know Best! recipe for Crumpets. At first, I thought, "What's the point? They come in a pack, always have done", but gave it a go after buying the chefs rings.
The recipe calls for, amongst other things, full fat milk, yeast, bicarbonate of soda, strong bread flour, regular white flour, and time. The recipe directs you to leave the bread to prove. This is where I had my concerns. Whenever I have baked bread in the past, it failed, to be frank. Maybe the yeast was dead, I don't know. Anyway, we left it to prove and went out - and got back in around 6 hours later, having left the crumpets to prove about 4 hours too long. Whoops!
Luckily, the expected monster explosion of crumpet mixture in the airing cupboard did not appear, all looked good, so we mixed the bicarb in, let it prove again - and commenced cooking! The crumpets are made in the frying pan, not baked, so my fears where unfounded. I was also concerned about the milk - we don't have full fat milk, and buying some in just for crumpets kind of goes against my objectives of doing things on a budget where possible - so we used skimmed and added a bit of cream!
So, how did it go? OK, they're only crumpets, but they really were delicious! The biker's recipe blurb states "they're a million miles away from the shop-bought alternative". We didn't really think this was true, but they certainly were much better. Mum's did know best with this one!
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