Crumpets in Ottawa?

[bunsen_h]

It 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.

Comments

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

I love crumpets. Now I am intensly craving them!

[suelet.livejournal.com]

Muffin rings are nothing more than round cookie cutters. You could make your crumpets cookie shaped!

(grin)

Just make sure they are WELL greased, as they tend to stick.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Alas, I also don't have a set of large cookie cutters. (And I assume that they'd have to have a fairly consistent height of about 1¹/₂ cm and be made of metal, which further limits the options for improvisation.)

I might try making some small, thick, yeast-raised pancakes, cooked at a relatively low temperature. The results might be not too far away from crumpets.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You are a terrible person. Now I have a craving for crumpets.
(Always a favourite. It isn't difficult to set me off.)

Crumpets sighted!

[buttongirl.livejournal.com]

I saw some crumpets in the Loeb on March rd in Kanata this weekend. They were Dempsters brand! I didn't know when I would next see you, so I didn't get them, but they were there!