Gordon Ramsey's Giant Crumpet

 I think I caught this recipe watching a programme ( one of so many cookery programmes ! ), now, who doesn't like a crumpet?? and , if you like a crumpet you'll love a mahoosive one right? Ok, so feeling rather gluttonous I decided to give this a go. 

It was really easy and this is how it went.

Ingredients :

• Ingredients:
• 175g strong white flour
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• Small pinch of caster sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon dried yeast
• 125ml warm milk 
• 150ml warm water 
• Nice quality butter

1. Sift the flour, salt, sugar and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Make a small well in the centre and add the yeast. Gently pour in the warm milk and water, ensure it is not too hot or you'll kill the yeast.
2. Bring the flour from the outside of the bowl into the liquid and mix until you have a batter. It is quite thick  but if too thick you can add up to another 100ml of warm water. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about an hour - it will have almost doubled in size.
3. Heat a non-stick frying pan  over a medium heat and add a little butter. Stir the batter and then pour into the pan. Turn down the heat and cook for 10-15 minutes
4. Once the batter is dry on top place a little butter around the edges of the crumpet and then flip over and cook for another 1-2 minutes.
5. Thats it, turn out and serve with whatever takes your fancy, honestly, I just like butter - but - I do rather like a smear of marmite on my crumpets too!!

Hmmm, it smelled and looked flippin lovely but, it was stodgy and not great, back to individual crumpets next time I think !