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I love a crumpet. Dial turned to 6 on the toaster, crispy on the outside, squidgy in the middle.
Topping wise, I'm easy, butter, peany b, jam, paté at Christmas. All works for me. My wife is strictly butter only.
This mornings crumpets were topped with the last of the homemade plum jam. Bosh.
This got me thinking, am I alone in loving a topping on a crumpet?
Always butter and lots of it. Sometimes jam.
Not a regular crumpet eater, but I do like them, just a bit messy.
Hard to beat butter, fully melted into the holes. Peanut butter/marmite; jam; grated cheese also good.
Always tons of butter, occasionally cheese.
Only good butter! And lots of it.
Loads of butter. Black pepper.
Let the marmite and melted butter mix
Grilled until crisp on the outside then top with cheese and a bit of pepper and grill it.
Edit: Most of the time, just butter.
Butter, marmite & cheese.
Heart attack levels of butter. Doesn't need anything other.
Smear of butter and scrambled eggs. Obviously 2 crumpets minimum. 😁
cooked until crispy, butter, and a tiny bit of salt sprinkled on top
Snippet of margarine and let the honey melt it. Tend to eat them when I've got a cold/man flu. Like now.
*Leslie Thomas voice*
Crumpet? ding dong!
Butter, smoked bacon, scrambled eggs and some maple syrup.
<I foresee a visit to the coop on the way home>
Lashings of butter and a good sprinkle of granulated sugar.....amazing.
crumpetswithsugar
Lashings of butter and a good sprinkle of granulated sugar…..amazing
It's like this post was made for you!
Cottage cheese and apricot jam. <br />Not had it in years. Might need to sort that.
Butter, thin layer of marmite, thin slices of mature cheddar.
Crumpets must be crisp on the edges and soft in middle.
Honey and Marmite (not on the same one).
Nothing beats butter, marmite, thick sliced extra mature cheddar.
Loads of butter.
Normally with so much butter it leaks through the bottom.
Also food is soaked in beaten egg before grilling to make crumpet French toast. Dash of Worcestershire and some grated cheese melted on top too.
Honey and Marmite (not on the same one).<br /><br />
They mix really well! Try it 🙂
@richardkennerley - you are truly an inspiration to us all
I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at that, but it looks awesome!
There”s all sorts of things that are good on a crumpet but non are better then marmite so you’d just be eating a crumpet topped with something inferior knowing there’s a jar a marmite just a few feet away and feeling cheated.
Crumpet, cheese, black pudding, bacon,
everybody talk about mmmmm pop music
Marmalade or melted cheese/Worcestershire sauce or ham and egg.
How’s about this? Crumpet, cheese, black pudding, bacon, crumpet, cheese, black pudding, bacon, hp sauce.
No. Its been adulterated
You can't just throw on anything and claim that makes it the ultimate. Thats like having Scones with cream and jam, then throwing on sliced bananas.
Just not the done thing in polite society. What you've done is turned quintessential English tea room into council estate cafe
What you’v4 done is turned quintessentially English tea room into council estate cafe
But look at that feat of balance! Like a game of greasy jenga. The only thing missing from the spectacle is a circus ring master (standing by with a defibrillator).
However - you'd still know you had marmite in the cupboard and the whole experience would be tinged with hollow yearning.
I hope the word margarine was trolling because if not that's just a waste of crumpets.
Right..... off to buy some crumpets now.
They're not called crumpets in our house. They're known as a "butter sponge".
off to buy some crumpets now.
Tsk, STW standards are slipping! Crumpets are dead easy to make and taste way, way better than supermarket shite. Paul Holywood's recipe works really well. You just need to buy some crumpet rings first (cheap). Like the difference between a homemade sourdough and white sliced with a 2 week half life. I drawn the line at hand churned butter though!
Butter
Jam
Sometimes cheese.
LittleMissMC is a freak who adds marmite.
Yes Pikelets - the proper name for crumpets where I'm from, even though I have now conceded they are different
Anyway, either a shit tonne of butter or peanut butter and some hazelnut choc spread all mushed up so it softens and melts in
+1 for the soaking in whisked egg with chilli flakes before frying, then bacon/facon and decent brown sauce
+1 for the soaking in whisked egg with chilli flakes before frying, then bacon/facon and decent brown sauce
Fresh chilli rather than flakes. Great as a breakfast pick me up as its the time of day you're most likely to rub your eyes
Normally with so much butter it leaks through the bottom.
Yes, this. Though they are nice with a poached egg on top too.
Did someone say margarine?!?
So wrong.
Everyone else is correct. Especially those including Marmite in their answer.
nutella
cheese and Branston
Yes Pikelets – the proper name for crumpets where I’m from
same here, well, originally Small Heath Birmingham
As much butter as is physically possible to soak into them, then melted mature cheddar on top
As an aside, if you’ve not watched huge man-baby Gregg Wallace looking at the making of Warbies giant crumpets, it’s well worth a viewing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l5hv
*Leslie Thomas voice*
Leslie Phillips surely?
I usually prefer good quality crunchy peanut butter to normal butter
Taste better when toasted via open fire
Used to do this as kids with my mum. It was great fun. Oh, we called them pikelets too as did most of our family. Mum and extended family were all from Birmingham/West Midlands.
Butter, jam on a Sunday.
I drawn the line at hand churned butter though!
This place is slipping.
Crumpets?
2 spins of ~3 on the toaster with a rest between.
Butter
Truffle marmite
Maybe, now and again, butter + honey.
we called them pikelets
Maybe I missed a post, but a pikelet and a crumpet are different beasts IME. Though I see that in some regions they’re synonymous.
For me a pikelet is similarly bubbly both sides. Crumpet is bubbly on one side.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/pikelets_25891/amp
Much like haloumi, I leave them in the packet and let other people eat their disgusting rubbery-ness 😃
How can you not like crumpets or squeeky cheese?
Both are the foods of the gods. Actually they’d be pretty bloody good together
toast the crumpets
add butter and a little ketchup
add nice cheese
grill
sprinkle with oregano and pepper
Butter and Marmite (and lick the bit off the plate that's soaked through)
I didn't realise there was any other way, other than maybe just plain Marmite, if you've run out of butter, or are out camping without a fridge or something.
+1 butter, +butter.
Sometimes cheese or an egg (or both).
Why have I never thought of trying it with Marmite! Yum.
Oh and a shout out to Warburtons for making gluten free crumpets, thank you 🥰 Sometimes hard to cook from frozen without getting a coldish soggy centre (they are denser than the normal gluten ones), but amazing from fresh.
Yes Pikelets – the proper name for crumpets where I’m from
same here, well, originally Small Heath Birmingham
I'm from Wolves. Pikelets are not crumpets. Pikelets are smaller / thinner.
Butter & jam
Just butter
Brie & marmite
Butter and lemon curd, fricken heaven
Pikelets are scotch pancakes to me - still nice toasted but have to be sliced a bit as the butter just runs off.
Crumpets and butter is the obvious go-to, although for real scuffer levels, not so much butter but topped with dairylea (or primula with or without ham), or Philladelphia 😀 .
Butter and lemon curd, fricken heaven
Mental note made, I have some Fortnum & Mason lemon curd, but currently no crumpets.
I do concur with butter, marmite and cheese (grilled if I haven't wolfed it down already) though.
Melted cheddar and Branston
Butter and honey. Then lick the plate after. Don't have them often - they're hard to get in (central) Spain.
Did someone say margarine?!?<br /><br />
Say what now? Margarine is a crime against humanity, anyone advocating its use should be locked up for the good of society! 😖
I grill each side, then put a thick coating of butter on, so it melts right through, then grated chilli flakes and black pepper, or grate a nice crumbly, crunchy sharp extra mature cheddar, stick back under the grill to melt it nicely then on with the chilli flakes and black pepper.
I have been known to eat five at one sitting, there’s nine in a packet, and three aren’t enough. 😁