Sourdough Crumpets. Leftover sourdough starter used for crumpets or pikelets. You're feeding your sourdough starter and you reluctantly have to discard two-thirds of it during the process. Place the rings (four rings just fit nicely) in the pan and give a few minutes to heat up.
If you've lived in the UK, it's hard to *not* know what a crumpet is - you may have even had a sourdough crumpet as the supermarkets.
Sourdough crumpets are the perfect solution for those who hate having to throw away leftover sourdough starter after each feeding.
Ubiquitously English, crumpets are somewhere between a pancake and an English muffin.
You can cook Sourdough Crumpets using 3 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sourdough Crumpets
- Prepare of starter.
- It's of baking powder.
- Prepare of salt.
This recipe is a great way to use up any excess sourdough starter. This perfect English crumpet recipe uses a sourdough starter. This is a quick, easy, and healthy recipe that doesn't require you to be a Michelin-starred chef to make. Crumpets are my most favorite storebought baked item - they are soft & chewy with big, open holes I have since tried this recipe with freshly fed sourdough starter, with less luck.
Sourdough Crumpets instructions
- If you've just fed your starter, mix everything together and leave it for a few hours. If you fed your starter a few hours ago, mix it with the baking powder and salt and cook it straight away..
- The consistency of your mixture determines the crumpetyness of your Cruffins. A more liquid (ie. batter-like) mixture will produce something more like a crumpet, while a thicker mixture (but not quite thick enough to be called a dough) will produce something towards the muffin end of the spectrum. So adjust the consistency of your mixture with water or flour to get the desired consistency..
- Heat a frying pan (medium heat) and muffin/egg rings. If you are going for something more muffiny, the batter will be thicker so you don't need the rings unless you want perfect round shapes..
- Spoon/pour in the batter. Don't fill the rings completely - the crumpets will grow! Cook until the bubbles come out the top and the top dries out, about 3-4 minutes (the one in the picture is half dry, so needs a little more). If your bottoms burn before this happens, then next time try reducing the temperature or adding less batter. You can then flip and cook for a minute or so on top. Or if you really want to preserve your bubble holes, you can grill them in the oven for a min or two..
Sourdough Crumpet Co. supplies local cafes and restaurants with hand-crafted, crumpets made "Posh Strawberries and Cream" Organic Sourdough Crumpets with Mascarpone, Ink Gin marinated. These are so simple to make - pancakes without the eggs and milk. I bought some BBQ egg rings some time back with the idea that they would make very good crumpet rings. Homemade sourdough crumpets are easier than you think to whip up. So much so that we thought we'd better share our recipe for sourdough crumpets.