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Pikelets Vs Crumpets

When I worked at Wimbush's we called it 'The Pikelet Room' where they were made, the chap in charge was a Mr Jones, who we girls called 'Spikey Pikey' because he was a bit of a grump.
Here in NZ they are called Crumpets, but at home I still call them Pikelets, also what they call muffins here in NZ are nothing like the pic' in post #26 Len... they are more like these... They can be Savoury, or sweet...
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Forgot to add that the ones we made in 1960's at Wimbush's were round, but we can now get square ones to put in the toaster.... nothing like the taste of them toasted on a 'Toasting Fork' in front of a fire though...
 
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My wife and I have this debate every time we buy them from ASDA.
She's a foreigner, all the way from darkest Wales, and she calls them Crumpets. I on the other hand, being a Brum born and bred, have always called them Pikelets.
Like Wendy, when we were kids, we cooked them in front of an open fire on the long handle fork my brother made in metal work.
They are definitely Pikelets.
 
Lyn you should be ashamed, every Brummie knows they're Pikelets!

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They almost give them away these days but going back to Wendy's post about putting them on a fork and toasting them in front of the fire. I was on the phone to my brother last night and he still has moms old toasting fork and does them in front of his burner. I have gone off them over the years as your tastes change. Jean.
 
They were always crumpets in our house, I loved them as a child but they always gave me hiccups!

Macca
 
Going off thread slightly, but still on the same theme, what do you call cobs, (rolls) whenever I ask for a cheese cob in the pub down here I am again stared at in wonderment.
 
john knight said:
Going off thread slightly, but still on the same theme, what do you call cobs, (rolls) whenever I ask for a cheese cob in the pub down here I am again stared at in wonderment.
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I had the same problem some years back in Bath John. I was told what I wanted (once I pointed to them) were Baps - well it were enough to make a young man blush.
 
I seem to remember - more than 55 years ago - that in the Hawley's shop just around the corner from where I lived, a cob was an almost spherical small loaf of very crusty, light, white bread, a bap was elliptical and of a softer bread which didn't have a crispy crust and a roll - other than being the generic word for a very small loaf – was specifically a soft-bread, sausage-shaped small loaf. But I could be wrong. David
 
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Crumpets always had a softer taste. Usually meant for afternoon high tea. Pikelets were more of a 'downstairs' treat, or if one wanted to appreciate something less grand. I've done my apprenticeship Lyn. LOL
 
THANKS FOR THE INPUT FOLKS....SO FAR IT SEEMS THAT CALLING THEM PIKELETS JUST HAS THE EDGE...

TO THE PERSON (and you know who you are) WHO DISAGREES WITH ME I ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL CALL THEM....

CRUMPETS....LOL....

LYN
 
Crumpets toasted with lots of butter on,pikelets are much thinner and they are sweet you wouldn't put butter on them. i just had a couple of crumpets,they are lovely with soft cheese
if you look at a recipe for pikelets there is sugar in it hence they are sweet look up a recipe for crumpets no sugar
 
hi elizabeth...havent had time to read all the posts but from what you are saying crumpets and pikelets are two different things...so the pic i posted is indeed crumpets....

lyn
 
yes totally different the picture is of crumpets.pikelets as i said are sweet and look a little like american pancakes,
 
Pikelets and crumpets are one and the same; excepting, that 'Pikelets' were made on a commercial griddle manufactured (originally) by 'Pikelets', an actual firm; and the Pikelets' griddle resulted in a slightly thinner 'crumpet' ....simples! I know this as my mother's parents had one.
 
hi miriam..hope you are well...just how i like them...lashings of best butter...reg surely not marmite lol....

lyn
 
I call them Pikelets, but te confusion is explained in Wikipedia:
Pikelet: A British regional dialect word variously denoting a flatter variant on crumpet or muffin. In the West Midlands it is the usual term for crumpet. A crumpet in this area is similar in appearance (but not taste) to a North American pancake.
 
It is true in" Birmingham" people sometimes refer to crumpets as pikelets ,but if you think about it on a crumpet you put butter
cheese,and yes even marmite ,on a pikelet you put jam cream fruit, All i can tell you is when i worked in a well known bakers
for many years we sold crumpets like the one shown and pikelets like i said much thinner sweet to taste very much like an american pancake,
 
dek carr said:
Lyn When i w3as younger i called them pikelets now i call them crumpets. Dek
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Me too! But I can't remember why/when I started calling them crumpets ....did the makers start putting 'crumpets' on the wrapper or something? It's funny we both changed what we call them.
Polly
 
Oh definitely Pikelets. They're just soooooooooooooooooooo gorgeous with butter & Bovril on 'em. Could say they were bostin actually!! I had this debate with friends only last week on Facebook!
 
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