[Closed] Favourite bakery product - Aka how good are crumpets?

Crumpets are all very well but are you forgetting that pies come from bakeries?

Just don't get crumpets..tasteless things

Yum Yums. Never has a baked good been more aptly named.

tasteless things

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You think crumpets are the best thing to come out of a bakery?

Better than pies? Or sausage rolls? Or cheese and onion pasties? Steak bakes?

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The best Bakery Product is the Amandes from the Boulangerie in Larchant. They take yesterday's stale Pain au Chocolats, squash them and slice them in half, fill with frangipane and top with almond paste and brown sugar and put them back in the oven to crisp up.

Crumpets are reliable. You *can* get a bad pie.

Anyhow, it hardly seems right that the best bakery product isn't baked.

Love a Friday bakery thread.

Any kind of hot pastry product is full of win, or mechanically separated innards.

Yum Yums are pointless, a really rubbish doughnut, that not any good IME.

I would like to suggest that Co-Op specialised bread (normally a limited/small selection) is worth searching out.. A really alternative to even our local bakers bread (great but not exciting white or malted/whole meal loaves).. Their onion rolls are to die for... Mediterranean, Moroccan, garlic, Apple/beetroot loafs have become like crack cocaine to me!

yum-yums are disgusting. It shows how low the once great bakeries of this green and pleasant land have come that a yum-yum should be considered good. Its a travesty of a cheap approximation to a doughnut. Real bakery doughnuts with a crsipy skin, real sugar and decent jam in cannot be beaten.

Or of course a pasty. Two particularly great pasties spring to mind: Philps pasties in Hayle for a bone fide cornish variety; or the pasties available from Ewenny post office, south wales, for a range of flavours. Steak and stilton being a personal favourite.

Crumpets are reliable. You *can* get a bad pie.

[b]BURN THE HERETIC!!!!![/b]

It's the cheese and bacon wrap for me. Cheese + bacon + pastry. Everything you could want. I'll take 3 please.

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There's only one thing better than a fresh cream apple turnover. And that's two of them.

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Has anyone posted a link to all this loveliness on the overeating thread? 😀

Do 'Patisserie' items count?

If so those fresh strawberry and custard tarts - nomnomnom

If not, a freshly baked baguette is the swiss army knife of baked goods - great in may situations.

The Greatape makes a good point there - I usually have one of these as a chaser

butteries FTW. Like croissants, but salty and lardy. 🙂

Croissant with black coffee, preferably outside in the early sunshine. It's the [b]only[/b] way to live!

Philps pasties in Hayle for a bone fide cornish variety

100% agree about the pasties...... Driving down overnight tonight to get some. Only 600 miles. Might stay for a couple of weeks and squeeze in a bit of a holiday while i'm there anyway. 😀

[b]Greggs / supermarket[/b] yum-yums are disgusting. It shows how low the once great bakeries of this green and pleasant land have come that a yum-yum should be considered good.

FTFY. We're talking about actual bakers, right? 😕

Greenodd bakery aloo pastie, washed down with a house brick sized vanilla slice for me today.

To paraphrase one of the greatest poets of our age. 'they make my pee-pee go b-boing boing boing'

The chocolate twist:

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If, in the spirit of the Tour de France, we can pop over the channel, there is nothing quite like fresh croissants, eaten in warm early morning french sunshine and washed down with strong balck coffee.

To be honest any properly bakery/patisserie made baked good is a marvel, a testament to human endeavour and intellect far surpassing such brick-a-brack as the Mona Lisa or Hamlet 😆

Don't like crumpets normally, but made my own and now know what they are supposed to taste like.

Pain au chocolate for me though, in France, from a proper boulangerie. Nom, Nom.

Have you tried Morrissons salt and pepper baguettes? Referred to in our house as crack cocaine bread, due to its unbelievable moreish-ness.

Get a load of cheese in and you can keep going at it like Mr Creasote

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A good chocolate twist is very hard to beat. Our place keeps overcooking them though, and not enough creme pat inside.

Cinnamon swirl, apricot danish or the ultimate, fresh cream vanilla slice.

Have you tried Morrissons salt and pepper baguettes? Referred to in our house as crack cocaine bread, due to its unbelievable moreish-ness.

They sound like Lidl bretzels, amazing things and great with a beer.

We happened across Hambleton Bakery, while looking for a suitable refreshment stop a few weeks ago on a Sunday ride.

There is one in Oakham, but we ended up in the one on the Cottesmore Road nr Exton.

I had a Pecan Bun, which filled me with a LOT of joy!! It was like a small Danish shape with loads of pecans on it & like a nutty spread stuff in it that I don't know the name of. It had been drizzled with some kind of caramel coating that had gone hard & crispy.
In fact, I might have to make a trip this weekend & savour some more of their delights......

They also had amazing English muffins cut up into sample sized chunks with their own jam on! Mmmmmmm!

Is it lunch time!? Writing all that had made me starving!!

Shout out for the humble custard tart, and its done-with-a-wee-bit-more-panache Portuguese cousin, the pastel de nata.

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I like a cake, who doesn't, but I think the peak of good bakery work is a beautifully baked croissant. Not too crumbly, buttery but not greasy, tasty but not too rich, a real work of art. Morning sun, Gauloises, good coffee and a copy of Le Figaro optional.

Actually, all this fancy stuff is nice but I'm a bread geek. If you're ever in Derbyshire go to The Loaf in Crich and try their Sauerlander Schwarzbrot. I'm a sucker for a good long fermented Whey Bread too.

Pain au chocolat with a coffee, else a steak and haggis pie. Oh my...

thinking about it made me go early. Now i feel very full and sleepy. Just in time for the conference call I haven't done the work for. Time for a nap.

Pikelets are better than crumpets.

There, I've said it.

Don't like crumpets normally, but made my own and now know what they are supposed to taste like.

I'd be interested to see your recipe, if you feel like sharing? I've been experimenting with home-made ones and they're not quite right yet.

Supermarket 'bakery' products are dire*

*Lidl excepted.

Supermarket 'bakery' products are dire*

Yeah, yeah.... go and get some Morrisons salt and papper/crack cocaine bread tonight and some decent cheeese (Garstang blue is perfect) then come back and tell me that its crap, rather than that you finished the lot, stuffing it into your gob until you felt sick

My local morrisons is like a manky wee 70's corner shop, but on a larger scale.

I'll stick with the Germans thanks. Cheese sounds nice though!.

Oh now then... Pastel de Nata you say? This is like Daddy or Chips, Daddy or Chips. Memories of PdN on a Portugese seafront with a decent-sized 'spresso... But it s a bit different to hot buttered crumpets at home.

I'm torn.

And talk of pies brought memories of *the best (steak) pie ever*, but you'll have to go [url= http://www.orkneyfoodanddrink.com/williamsons ]here[/url] to get one.

lidl's apple turnovers (especially when they were 3 for £1) are a personal fave.

As someone with a gluten intolerance, can I just say that you bunch of ****ing ****s can ****ing shove your ****ing bakery thread right up your ****ing ****.

*weeps*

You have my condolences Kit.

In the interests of research I'm just having a steak bake and a sausage roll from the nations favourite purveyor of pastry based produce 😀

You could just take some great photos of pastries, Crutherz, and sell them for big bucks.

If we are talking pies etc then I'll have a macaroni pie or a Forfar Bridie. If we allowed them over the border the Cornish pastor would be finished.

Tarts and crumpets are where it's at, oh not just the ladies behind the counter, sorry I'm blaming the sun it's got to me 😳

Pikelets are better than crumpets.

There, I've said it.

Do what? Now I like a pikelet but completely different creature that shouldn't be compared.. You don't toast pikelets (well I've never), you wouldn't melted cheese on them, just totally different

You have my sympathies Kit.. not to worry you probably aren't half the size of the posters on this thread.. so think yourself lucky in other ways

Have you tried Morrissons salt and pepper baguettes? Referred to in our house as crack cocaine bread, due to its unbelievable moreish-ness.

Having been introduced to this by a Northern, Morrisons shopping relative, I can confirm that if any is served there will definitely be none left at the end of the meal.

You don't toast pikelets

Of course you do, they're just like crumpets only less stodgy. Now shut up and pass the Marmite.

<shudders> weirdo!

Cougar: I used Paul Hollywood's recipe. Crumpet rings and a FLAT frying pan help (It's how I found out that our frying pan was warped).

If we've got the ingredients in I may make some tonight if I get my daughter into bed and my new CAADX (picked up today) set up quickly.

Whilst we are talking bread products, homemade pitta breads are a revelation - Paul Hollywood has a lot to answer for (Souvlaki recipe). Nom, Nom, double Nom.

Crumpets yes. Warburton's though. Nothing but butter on them though, it's what they were designed for.

I did become very partial to the odd almond croissant from the local Carluccios at one time.

Good fresh bread takes a lot of beating though. Especially sourdough with a nice crunchy crust.

I'm sorry tallpall but life's too short for making your own crumpets and pitta breads. Thats why God invented shops, and Warburtons, but for some reasons, probably best known to himself, put Paul Hollwood on this earth

*gives long smouldering look to camera*

Thats why God invented shops

😆

Croissant with a good cup of coffee.

Whilst we are talking bread products, homemade pitta breads are a revelation - Paul Hollywood has a lot to answer for (Souvlaki recipe)

Ignore Binners' working class hero posturing, pick up a copy of Dan Lepard's Short and Sweet and bake many, many things...

Called in the local village store near to work yesterday and behind the counter were some warm black pudding and pork pies. Had to have one, wish I'd got two.
Bottom 3/4 was pork layered on top with black pudding, jelly was still runny.

Crumpet rings and a FLAT frying pan help (It's how I found out that our frying pan was warped).

Yeah. I had a Tefal pan which went convex (or concave depending on your point of view, it domed in the middle). At the time I had an awful cooker with the old style spiral electric rings, put it down to that. Spoke to Tefal (in a factory outlet store) about their lifetime guarantee, they said it wasn't covered and the guarantee is really for the coating.

When I got a new cooker with a halogen hob, I replaced it with a new Tefal. Fast forward two years and the new one's convex as well. Ho hum.

Ignore Binners' working class hero posturing

Its not posturing. If you lot are all making your own pittas no wonder Greece is in such a state. I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you? Pfft! So much for solidarity!

anything from pattisserie valerie. .otherwise some nom nom egg tarts chinese style or a decent double yolk moon cake 🙂

It all started with trying to emulate the pizza's that we had on the Amalfi Coast. Other bread products just naturally followed 😀

Don't see what the problem is with making your own. Most of the process is waiting for dough to rise. Plenty of time to do other things.
BTW best pizza recipe so far is from the Pizza Pilgrim's book at takes 24hrs to prove. Lovely flavour and texture. Just need to build the wood fired oven.

I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you

😆 @ binners and lemonysam

I'll go back to beating myself with birch twigs...

I'll go back to beating myself with birch twigs...

Tsk... you could weave your own banneton with those.

Of course you toast pikelets and put cheese on them. Not as spongy to absorb the butter as crumpets but still a dam fine product.

No English bakery or supermarket can do proper French products, and any English version of a baguette is a travesty imo. A baguette should be crisp and full of air holes. As for a chocolate twist........poor mans pain au chocolat imo!

My half-frenchness may influence that last comment but the baguette comment holds!

If we're talking pattiserie, then a Religieuse is where it's at, coffee or chocolate, it matters not!

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A bridie from The Bakery in Acharacle that's all

Your going to hate me for this:

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Slightly larger than bite sized cinnamon buns, availble from waitrose / ocado, very moreish.

Does anything thats baked count?

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Another vote for Warburton's crumpets, swimming with proper butter. 8)

Crumpets - when I ate gluten stuff - loads of butter and a runny poached egg so the yolk fills any holes not filled with butter.

I'm definitely having crumpets for breakfast tomorrow now. With loads of butter

Haven't had them in ages. A glaring oversight 😀

I suppose you're making your own Halloumi too, are you?

No, but my homemade feta is pretty good.

Crumpets - when I ate gluten stuff - loads of butter and a runny poached egg so the yolk fills any holes not filled with butter

I love all crumpets, but funnily enough it was munching my way through a 6 pack of Warburtons oozing butter that prompted this thread. I should have invested beforehand.

Currently eating crumpets. Cheers for the PSA (-:

I bet binners has nipped home to whip up a batch of kouign amanns.

The bloke who used to be Secretary General for the UN?

Takes all sorts I suppose.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Coffee an' Walnut.

Now I love a good crumpet as much as the next man but to say it's better than carrot cake is preposterous