Four weeks returned from Albion and the last 2 of 18 Sainsburys crumpets were looking a bit lonely in the freezer and mighty sad at their imminent consumption.
What to do , what to do ?
Time to invade the kitchen and use up that bit of flour. A quick look at a few Youtube recipes and I'm thinking...:
' Thats looks easy ...... I can manage that '
So ...first thing was to get the vital missing ingredient ....yeast , which was easily obtained in powdered form from the Mall for a few baht . This is what you go for :
Doesn't say yeast in English but its written Thaiglish on the back. NOT to be confused with baking powder.
Next the other ingredients which I already had
Left to right :
Salt
Sugar
Baking powder
Milk
Yeast
Flour
There seem to be differing opinions on how to proceed next vis the blending but here's how I went.
1) Put about two mugfulls of flour into your mixing bowl.
2) Add : 1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 heaped teaspoon of yeast
Mix this lot together quickly then add about a mugfull of WARM MILK
Doesn't have to be hot or boiling, just warm enough to activate the yeast
As for the quantity of milk, I boiled up what looked to be sufficient plus a little extra just in case.
3) Beat this mixture together until you get a consistency similar to what you would use to make pancakes. Not to thick, not too runny.
Now cover this with a tea towel and leave to stand for 1 hour while the yeast does its stuff. When you come back in an hour after having made mad passionate love to your woman ( optional but recommended ) it should look like this :
Sorry about the poor photo but my knees were a bit week.
4) Now...... mix a heaped teaspoon of baking powder with a little WARM water and add to your mix. Now stir all this together again and leave to stand for about 20 minutes. After this time bubbles will be rising to the surface ( again )
5) Now, grease a non stick pan a little and rub some butter around your rings to stop the mix sticking. Put the rings in the pan and add a good dollop of your mix to each ring. About a centimetre or more will be enough. This should all be over a LOW GAS.
Helps to cover with a lid to help the heat get to the top of the mix and cook evenly.
When the top of the crumpet sets a little, remove the crumpets from the ring, turn over and cook the top side.
I actually got another pan going so that I could be doing the tops and starting the next two.
And there you have. You've scored some cheap and tasty crumpet for a change.
The first two looked like this .........
And from those two mugfulls of flour I got 9 crumpets :
Yes, only 8 here because the runt of the litter was divided in two for the judges verdict ( myself and Ms Bangyai )
Her verdict were they were better than the sainsburys one and who am I to argue.
Afternoon delight indeed :