Base made with Basil and Pepper flour from Wexford Mill, and a very generous and erroneous glug of Truffle Oil (the bottle looked like the plain olive oil I intended to use)
Tag archives: Yeasted misc
Yesterday’s outcome
The Milk Roll wasn’t exactly inedible. It is very close textured and looks like a Madeira cake! We had some for tea and then toast for breakfast today. Not my best bread ever, but not duck food either. The Malt Loaves were a little too browned, due to my giving a blog my attention and …
Egg Sarnies
I need to learn to bake in smaller quantity. It goes against the grain a little, I grew up learning to make efficient use of my power units and to fill every spare inch of oven space when it was on. Switching on for just one loaf? Oh, how I wish I had the ever-ready …
Crumpets for Tea
Well, that was interesting. “Interesting” as in “nowhere near as easy as I had expected it to be.” Making the batter was simple and fast – just whisk together the flour, yeast, milk and water. I used a balloon whisk, forgetting that I have a spanking new dough whisk, as yet unused. It took a …
Crumpet, muffin, pikelet and farl recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Life and style | The Guardian
Crumpet, muffin, pikelet and farl recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Life and style | The Guardian. Just for reference, my recipes for yesterday’s Muffins and today’s Crumpets/Pikelets are the same as the ones in this Guardian article, so if you don’t have access to the River Cottage Handbook 3, you can get details here.
Bucket List Baking: Crumpets/Pikelets
When ah were a lass growin’ oop bein’ dragged oop in Sheffield, we called these tea-time treats Pikelets. Since those distant monochrome days of filth and want, I have discovered that most of the known world has Crumpets for tea. Pikelets, according to various sources, are a slightly different beast (but not when ah were …