Tea and crumpets

When it comes to culinary duos, tea and crumpets are right up there with fish and chips or strawberries and cream.  As we tiptoe into autumnal weather, a steaming cuppa and piping-hot buttered crumpet conjure up cosy afternoon teas.

The nation loves a crumpet, we even use it in slang as a way of talking about someone we find attaractive.  Imagine being so tasty that people want to be compared to you!!!

Next week is National Crumpet Week and so we had a think about where crumpets fit in the family tree of baked goods.  Shy and humble, but always warm and welcoming, it has some interesting cousins. 

The breakfast muffin, well to do  and probably talks about sourdough starters at dinner parties.  They get split in half and toasted which the crumpet thinks is...a bit over the top!

A more distant relative is the pancake, they only ever show up at family reunions on Shrove Tuesday. 

Or the pikelet, the crumpet's thinner sibling who went on a diet and never lets you forget it. 

And of course there's the scone too, the wild child of the family, dresses up in some pretty loud attire (though we prefer it when they wear the jam on top...).

We are so lucky to have an artisanal crumpet maker just down the road...Lovely Bit of Crumpet What they don't know about crumpets isn't worth knowing!!!  

They do a brilliant crumpet making kit...why not give it a go?  

And then put the kettle on.