Re: Bagels

John Williamson wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sounds a bit American pancake-ish.