Crumpets

Ingredients

• One pound and a half of flour
• half an ounce of German yeast
• one quart of new milk
• two eggs
• a teaspoonful of sugar
• two teaspoonfuls of cold water
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the yeast by rubbing it smooth with sugar and cold water; add a pint of lukewarm milk and let it settle.

2. 2

   Mix with flour to form a batter, set to rise.

3. 3

   Once risen, add beaten eggs, salt, and remaining milk to achieve a thick batter.

4. 4

   Prepare a girdle with butter, pour batter, and bake until lightly browned.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

crumpets) till smooth, let it stand to rise, and bake on a hot bake-stone or iron plate in the same way as crumpets, but not quite so quickly. 202 VEGETARIAN COOKERY. No, 616. — Westmoreland Oat-Cake. Mix fine oatmeal with milk-warm water into a stiff dough ; roll it to the thickness of a wafer ; bake it on a girdle, or iron plate, place over a slow fire, about three or four minutes, and then place it on edge before the fire to harden. It will keep, in a dry place, three or four months. No. 517. — Potato Cakes. Boil some good mealy potatoes, and when well dried, mash them wdth a little butter and salt, adding German yeast, milk, and as much flour as will make it the consistency of dough ; roll it into cakes, and when sufiiciently risen, bake in a mode- rate oven. No. 618. — Crumpets. One pound and a half of flour, half an ounce of German yeast, one quart of new milk, and two eggs. Prepare the yeast by rubbing it quite smooth with a tea- spoonful of sugar and two tea-spoonfuls of cold wator ; add a pint of the milk, lukewarm, leaving it a few minutes to settle ; clear it off through a flne strainer into the flour, stirring it till like batter ; set it to rise, and when ready to mix, add the eggs, well beaten, a little salt

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