To hide the crumpets?

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The shopping just arrived, I feel I should hide the warburtons crumpets. The other night DH ate last two - but used light salad cream on them instead of butter (well, buttery spread in this house)!!
It's just wrong, such a waste of a good crumpet. I still haven't got over him putting tomato purée on them for the kids and now that's the only way they'll eat them. Whatever happened to just enjoying your crumpet with a bit of butter on?

Crumpets are properly eaten with so much real butter on them that it dribbles down your chin when you bite into it. It MUST be real butter - I use it for everything anyway but a crumpet especially.

I will confess to occasionally melting cheese onto them. I was introduced to this by DH's family. It's nice now and then.

If you think my butter like spread is sacrilege, my 3 year old DD has been known to eat them with no topping and RAW! I must love my family to let them waste all these crumpets

Butter and sugar, brown if we're being grown up about it...

I like my crumpets extra crunchy (double time in the toaster) with first marmite and then a slice of plastic burger cheese- preferably the orange kind...deeelicious!

Gah!!! Now I want buttery crumpets (twice buttered as a pp said) but I live in a country where there is neither hide nor hair of anything crumpet like. And I have coeliac disease. And I hate you all now .

Laloue23 Keep quiet and hear us all salivating . . .

DH puts bloody nutella on his.

I tried it. I luffs nutella and I proper luffs crumpets but together? NOPE.

Just butter. The buttery-er the better.

(I am also on a diet and I want hot buttery crumpets)

I love warburtons crumpets with butter and marmite.

My ds likes crumpets but he just puts butter on the crumpet.... but doesn't toast the crumpet its just nasty.
I like my crumpets crispy and dripping in butter.

YANBU hide them

LikeTheShoes eggy crumpets - inspired ????

I agree with you about well-toasted crumpets, tshirt - dh used to toast them just enough to make them warm. Pale, flabby crumpets - urghhhh.

M&S Pikelets are very nice. Butter referred but toasted and then put under the grill with a slice of cheese till brown and bubbling, very good also.

Egg mayo with a bit of smoked salmon and they are a light lunch.

WTF? Bought crumpets? Savages, the lot of you!

Make 'em yourself, it's easy-peasy!

Or, do what I do and ditch the ring - just have them freeform and call them pikelets. (I'm too impatient to wait for crumpets to cook - pikelets are pretty well a fast food! )

Have them plain or throw a handful of sultanas in the mix - fruit pikelets!

I made GF ones for my coeliac friends at my coffee morning, earlier; then I made them with my special needs class this afternoon, then again, later, I made some with a couple of guys at the Taunton Association of the Homeless. We had them with homemade jam, homemade marmalade and homemade, vegan, chocolate spread. (No butter, I'm afraid - I'm vegan!)

They are so easy and quick to make - probably the easiest thing you can make in the kitchen! Not to mention cheap! They cost absolute pennies!

breadandwine recipe?

I think Breadandwine might be the patron saint of crumpets

I second the recipe request!

Oh my word OP!!! Suggest couples' therapy here!!!! No one should be allowed to adulterate a buttered crumpet!!!! And to allow children to eat them with tomato purée???
I feel for you ... Suggest you also buy them secretly and scoff the whole packet in the shed at 2am ( fantasises licking the dribbly butter spread ooze from forearms!)

Ditto recipe request BreadandWine!!!

Breadandwine has included the recipe - just click the link. Thanks bread - I love pikelets and haven't had them for years. I think I'll add some cinnamon to the fruit ones

Never ever thought of making my own. Lakeland sell crumpet rings but the free form pikelets look amazing

Has your DH done a pregnancy test?

The real issue here though is the butter.

Toasted until crunchy, double buttered, smear of mustard, cheese then grill until it submits.

I need to add crumpets to my shopping list :o

Butter is absolutely disgusting. I have mine with cheese or Nutella. You'd hate me

Mmmmm..crumpets. Lots of butter,and either marmite or golden syrup. Mmmmm.

Mmmm crumpet, butter, marmite and cheese.

And just to piss you all off - all vegan

And just to piss you all off - all vegan

Can't piss me off, HippyDippy! I'm a vegan too.

For interest's sake, what's your favourite vegan cheese. My goto cheese ATM is Violife - melts lovely on pizzas.

About crumpets/pikelets. I bet you've all got crumpet rings without knowing it! Or pastry cutters as they're generally known.

(As long as they're not made from plastic - I have a set of those, but also some metal cutters.)

So you can make three sizes of crumpets, now!

I've been asked to make gingerbread in one of my special needs sessions, so I bought a couple of gingerbread cutters. Next time I make pikelets, probably tomorrow, I'll use them as crumpet 'rings'!

The other thing I'm thinking of doing is making a ginger cake in a frying pan. (Just put cake batter in the frying pan as if you were making a pancake on a low heat. Wait until the top sets then let it cool in the pan.) Then cut out the gingerbread shapes - and use chocolate drops for buttons, eyes, etc.

Bet your kids would love to do that!