Mike van de Elzen: Mother's Day crumpets

Mother's Day crumpets 

Cook time: 10 minutes 

Prep time: 30 minutes 

Serves: makes 10-15

375 ml warm water 

250 ml milk 

1 tbsp dried yeast 

1 tbsp raw sugar 

400 gm plain flour 

1 tsp baking powder 

1 tsp baking soda 

Pinch of salt 

Sunflower oil for cooking

Combine the water, milk, yeast and sugar in a jug and set aside to activate. 

Place the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Slowly stir in the yeast mixture and continue to mix until smooth. 

Cover with a clean damp towel and set aside somewhere warm to ferment for a hour. 

The batter should start to bubble during this time.  

10 minutes before you start to cook the crumpets, dissolve the baking soda in a little water. Mix through the batter and set aside. 

Heat a large cast iron frypan over a medium heat. Add a touch of oil and spread it around. Drop in some 10cm crumpet moulds or steel pastry cutters. Spoon in about 1/4 cup of crumpet batter into each mould. Allow the bubbles to rise to the surface for a couple of minutes before removing the moulds. After 5 minutes, flip and continue to cook on a low heat until golden. 

Repeat until all the batter is used. 

Serve hot with marmalade and butter.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Joining me now is Mike vander Allison, our resident chief.
Good morning, Mike, Good morning. Uh Mother's Day? How's it
gone down in your house this morning?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Well, I hope a little bit chaotic. Expect nothing to
you anyway.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're the first.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
You're the first person to say that I haven't heard
from many of my children. Oh, hang on, hang on,
I have Oh I got it. Forty one minutes ago,
my son texts me to say Happy Mother's Day. He
actually texts me last Sunday to say Happy Mother's Day,
and then sort of made the point while I've done
it now, so I'm ahead.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Happy mother tell him that he was a week early though.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, yeah, I did tell him that, and he said, yeah,
but that's cool sort it. But anyway, he has remembered,
So there we go. One child has very kindly sent
me some love. I'm loving it. I'm sorry. So you
were saying kawaok in your house?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yes, we had. I had to drag kids out of bed.
Mom was already up doing the washing. Come on, girls,
you promised me. And then what happened. Last night. We
brought some chocolate, and we brought a bar of chocolate
for Mother's Day present. This morning, hipter our dog and
Ate the entire is a.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Dog, Okay, because I thought chocolate's not good for dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
He's fine, and I really don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Okay, in a way, things, in a way, things have
unfolded in the vanda Elsenhause how I thought they might.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So was so the girls didn't get up and there
was no present from m So we made a pancakes
and so all is good.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
My girlfriend of mine, she said to me. I said
to my husband. She's got three adult children, and she
said to him, hey, look of any of the mask
What I'd love? I'd love just a little Meca voucher.
That would be lovely. And no one's asked. Okay, well
that's fine, thanks so much. Anyway, tell us about our
Mother's Day crumpets.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I know I'm a little bit late, but hey, we
could have brunch when we used to have brunch.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yes, now we just have any that I know.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, well these could be Mother's Day crumpet lunches. So
you know, you can have crumpet favor, you can have
crumpet sweet. So crumpets are pretty cool and it's and
I think that's probably not the sort of thing that
people would really think of making themselves at home from scratch.
They just go out and buy the packets, which which
is great, but hey, give it a whorld because it's
a pretty easy and simple thing to make. Think of

(02:29):
it as like a pikelet, but it's a lot runnier.
So what you do need to make crumpets is you
need crumpet molds or like little steel rings, maybe ten
ten meters rings that you can put into a pan
and then pour the batter into. So you do need
to go out and try and saw some of those,
like little pastry cutters. If you've got some of those,
that will work super. So to start off with, I've

(02:52):
got a heart. Three hundred and seventy five is a
really loose, loose batter, So three hundred and seventy five
meals of warm water. Next that with two hundred and
fifty meals or a cup of warm warm milk, adding
a tablespoon of dried jets and a tablespoon of sugar.
Set that aside to let the activate or yet the
leaves the yeast activate into another bowl four hundred graands

(03:15):
of playing flour, one teaspoon of baking powder, and a
pinch of salt. Once your yeas is activated, and you'll
notice because you'll start to see it's bubbling on the surface,
slowly pour your yeast mixer into that flour mixer and
just beat it with the whiskey into its loose Cover
the whole batter over with a damp cloth, and then
just set that aside somewhere warm for an hour. It's

(03:36):
going to take about hour to lament, particularly at liver
colda After an hour, once you start to see those
bubbles coming to the surface, we can start get into action.
The final thing you do, and it's quite odd, but
this is what makes crumpets different to a lot of
other sort of baking elements, is just before you start
to cook the crumpets, take a teaspoon of baking soda,

(03:57):
mix it just with a little bit of water, and
then add that into that batter mix. And what the
soda does is really brings that batter alive and creates
the the big bubbles in the crumpets. So now heat up,
I've got a cast iron pan. Heat up a cast
iron pan over a medium heat, drop in your crumpet
molds a touch of oil, and then spoon and it's

(04:18):
about a quarter of a cup of crumpet mix into
each of those molds, and then just allow the bubbles
to rise to the surface. Why do you see the
bubbles rise into service? You can actually take the molds
away and we're just hoping at that stags that the
crumpets will hold their shape. If they don't, then the
next time you do it, just take the molds away
just that little bit later. Once you take the molds away,
you can flip them over, cook them for another five

(04:39):
minutes and repeat until the rest of the battle mix
is done. Keep them morm in the oven, and then
when you're ready to rumble out, they come and save
with some hot marmalade and lots of butter.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh I love it. Thank you so much, Mike really
appreciate it. You can get that recipe from good from
Scratch dot cot dot inz or at Newstalk z'db dot
cot dot inza Ford Slash Monday Sunday, Dear Idea, it
is twelve to eleven.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
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