Crumpets in Ottawa?
Oct. 27th, 2007 10:54 amIt occurred to me a couple of weeks ago that I hadn't had crumpets in a long time. (I'm referring here to edible consumables, not to any kind of colloquialism, about which I will say naught.) I started looking around the local grocery stores, and had no luck at all. A woman at the bakery counter at the local Loeb's told me that they usually carried them but that their supplier had had a fire in their local bakery; they were managing to ship other baked goods from their other bakery in Alabama, but that bakery didn't make crumpets.
Has anyone noticed them on sale in Ottawa lately? It's not a high priority, but now I've got a bit of a hankering.
My usually-reliable cookbook set, the Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, has a recipe for them, but the recipe is obviously not trustworthy. It says that the batter can either be poured into greased rings on a hot griddle, or rolled out on a floured board and cut into pieces. The former seems much more plausible, but I'd have to get a set of muffin rings or the equivalent, and all in all it sounds like more effort than I'd intended to invest in this.
Has anyone noticed them on sale in Ottawa lately? It's not a high priority, but now I've got a bit of a hankering.
My usually-reliable cookbook set, the Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, has a recipe for them, but the recipe is obviously not trustworthy. It says that the batter can either be poured into greased rings on a hot griddle, or rolled out on a floured board and cut into pieces. The former seems much more plausible, but I'd have to get a set of muffin rings or the equivalent, and all in all it sounds like more effort than I'd intended to invest in this.