Re: Bagels

On 08/08/2024 04:12, Ben Newsam wrote:
> Bob Henson wrote, though the Organization header says "Home":
>
>> On 7.8.24 3:12 am, Ben Newsam wrote:
>>> Kerr-Mudd, John wrote, though the Organization header says "Dis":
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:21:36 +0100
>>>> Ben Newsam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Personally, I'm not keen on bagels.
>>>>
>>>> Crumpets all round!
>>>
>>> Indeed. Or pikelets.
>>
>> They don't seem to understand pikelets in Gloucestershire. I usually
>> explain they are thinner and of greater diameter than crumpets - they
>> were when I was a kid in Derbyshire, anyway.
>
> Absolutely. Here in Sheffield people sometimes erroneously call a
> normal crumpet a pikelet. IMO actual pikelets are better and, as you
> say, thinner and a little larger. Sometimes I make my own because I do
> not possess crumpet rings. The other day I spotted some genuine
> pikelets in M&S Food Hall in Meadowhall.
>
In the Potteries, where I first met them, pikelets are a smaller, 
thicker, sweeter version of the Staffordshire oatcake, often with raisin 
in it. They are produced using the same large griddle as the oatcakes. 
No rings are used in the process, just a blob of fairly stiff batter 
carefully dropped onto the griddle.

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Tciao for Now!

John.