Crumpets

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 cup yeast
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Scald the milk; when cool enough stir all together, beat vigorously ten minutes, stand in a warm place till light, about five hours.

2. 2

   Butter the muffin rings and place on hot greased griddle.

3. 3

   Fill each ring half full of the batter; bake brown, then turn with cake turner till brown on the other side; till well cooked in center.

4. 4

   When ready to use them, split open, toast and butter them nicely, and serve quickly while hot.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint milk 2 tablespoons butter 3 cups flour y2 cup yeast 2 eggs I teaspoon salt Scald the milk, add the butter, when cool enough add the salt and flour, beat well and let sponge over night. Then add the eggs beaten separately, beat well, put in buttered gem pans, let stand fifteen or twenty minutes, till light, bake in moderate oven. Crumpets. I pint milk 4 tablespoons butter 3 cups flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.