Crumpets vs. Pikelets
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It seems the English and the Scots are at odd on this matter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikelet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikelet
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Scots will call an English crumpet (the thick variety) a pikelet (I think).
Other people will call a flatter crumpet a pikelet and some will call a Scotch pancake a pikelet - it's probably a regional AND a genarational thing.
Other people will call a flatter crumpet a pikelet and some will call a Scotch pancake a pikelet - it's probably a regional AND a genarational thing.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think we need a National Academy For Naming Cakes and Snacks (NANCS) to sort this out once and for all.
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
beeboo said:Pikelet = Flattened Crumpet
Scotch Pancake = small thick pancake
So why not call it a squashed crumpet ?????
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I am of Scottish ancestry, born in Yorkshire and now living in London. IMHO...
A "scotch pancake" is otherwise known as a drop scone. These are light and fluffy and bloody gorgeous. Americans make a version of these and call them pancakes or flapjacks. Because they are sweet, it's quite wrong to eat them with jam. Just butter. But the people over that side of the pond eat them with bloody bacon and eggs. Weirdos. I make these often and for no reason. I sometimes put sultanas or raisins in, but not necessarily.
A "pikelet" is definitely NOT the same as the above, but is a thin crumpet. It's kind of chewy and has holes in it. They are yummy with butter and jam (but messy to eat). When I first moved Down South, no-one seemed to have heard of pikelets, which made me think they were a northern thing. I have never tried making these, and wouldn't know how to start.
A "crumpet" is thick and chewy and has holes in which are perfect for trapping the hot butter and jam, and are impossible to eat without getting jam and butter all over yourself.
Hope that helped
A "scotch pancake" is otherwise known as a drop scone. These are light and fluffy and bloody gorgeous. Americans make a version of these and call them pancakes or flapjacks. Because they are sweet, it's quite wrong to eat them with jam. Just butter. But the people over that side of the pond eat them with bloody bacon and eggs. Weirdos. I make these often and for no reason. I sometimes put sultanas or raisins in, but not necessarily.
A "pikelet" is definitely NOT the same as the above, but is a thin crumpet. It's kind of chewy and has holes in it. They are yummy with butter and jam (but messy to eat). When I first moved Down South, no-one seemed to have heard of pikelets, which made me think they were a northern thing. I have never tried making these, and wouldn't know how to start.
A "crumpet" is thick and chewy and has holes in which are perfect for trapping the hot butter and jam, and are impossible to eat without getting jam and butter all over yourself.
Hope that helped
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
Now you have introduced drop scone and flapjack........im confused but as long as they taste yummy who gives a fig really
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I am getting a sense that you are often confused! Perhaps you would like to borrow my tagline sometimes? 
Perhaps you would like to borrow my tagline sometimes?
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
Guineveretoo said:I am getting a sense that you are often confused!
yes that may be useful
Im having an emotional car boot sale at present so im experiencing the crack mirrored syndrome, it will pass....next week i will probably be forthwrite and over the top, knowing my all or nothing trait that hounds me.....
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
I agree with this - but why Americans call scotch pancakes flapjacks? Flapjacks are oaty and sugary, perhaps syrupy, absolutely nothing like a scotch pancake, the bastards!!!Guineveretoo said:I am of Scottish ancestry, born in Yorkshire and now living in London. IMHO...
A "scotch pancake" is otherwise known as a drop scone. These are light and fluffy and bloody gorgeous. Americans make a version of these and call them pancakes or flapjacks. Because they are sweet, it's quite wrong to eat them with jam. Just butter. But the people over that side of the pond eat them with bloody bacon and eggs. Weirdos. I make these often and for no reason. I sometimes put sultanas or raisins in, but not necessarily.
A "pikelet" is definitely NOT the same as the above, but is a thin crumpet. It's kind of chewy and has holes in it. They are yummy with butter and jam (but messy to eat). When I first moved Down South, no-one seemed to have heard of pikelets, which made me think they were a northern thing. I have never tried making these, and wouldn't know how to start.
A "crumpet" is thick and chewy and has holes in which are perfect for trapping the hot butter and jam, and are impossible to eat without getting jam and butter all over yourself.
Hope that helped
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Some American pancakes (Australian ones too) have oats in them
Guineveretoo said:I am of Scottish ancestry, born in Yorkshire and now living in London. IMHO...
A "scotch pancake" is otherwise known as a drop scone. These are light and fluffy and bloody gorgeous. Americans make a version of these and call them pancakes or flapjacks. Because they are sweet, it's quite wrong to eat them with jam. Just butter. But the people over that side of the pond eat them with bloody bacon and eggs. Weirdos. I make these often and for no reason. I sometimes put sultanas or raisins in, but not necessarily.
A "pikelet" is definitely NOT the same as the above, but is a thin crumpet. It's kind of chewy and has holes in it. They are yummy with butter and jam (but messy to eat). When I first moved Down South, no-one seemed to have heard of pikelets, which made me think they were a northern thing. I have never tried making these, and wouldn't know how to start.
A "crumpet" is thick and chewy and has holes in which are perfect for trapping the hot butter and jam, and are impossible to eat without getting jam and butter all over yourself.
Hope that helped
With the exception of the slightly dubious 'flapjack' thing, this is EXACTLY it.
Anyone who disagrees is wrong wrong wrong!
*Miss*Sparkle*
please, call me Sparkle
Aren't scotch pancakes made with eggs, whereas pikelets contain no eggs?
I voted crumpet - and yeah they are yum with marmite on *licks lips*
I voted crumpet - and yeah they are yum with marmite on *licks lips*
FiFi
Hot Cross Bunny
beeboo said:Margarine anywhere near a crumpet would be very, very wrong.
The quantity of butter should be enough to form a large puddle on the plate
Finally-the real truth in this whole thread emerges.
It's not the name of the "doughy product" that matters- it's the amount of butter you use on top!
boozybirdie
New Member
Pikelets are just squashed crumpets.
pembrokestephen
New Member
Barm == old English word for yeast. So a "barm cake" could be any non-savoury yeast-risen product. In practice, it seems to be whatever the local town happens to think it is.Herbsman. said:A barmcake ffs wtf is wrong with northern people???
They look just like scotch pancakes. The Pikelets that I ate recently didnt look like that...
Crumpets, by the way.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
You people are bonkers!
a) There is no such thing as a pikelet - it's something daft southerners have made up, and sounds like a fish.
b) Crumpets are very thin, and the French call them crepes. They are eaten on Shrove Tuesday, by Blue Peter presenters.
Daft people in Ayrshire make big thick things and call them crumpets; they are quite, quite wrong in this, as in most things.
c) Pancakes are thick, and look like this:
a) There is no such thing as a pikelet - it's something daft southerners have made up, and sounds like a fish.
b) Crumpets are very thin, and the French call them crepes. They are eaten on Shrove Tuesday, by Blue Peter presenters.
Daft people in Ayrshire make big thick things and call them crumpets; they are quite, quite wrong in this, as in most things.
c) Pancakes are thick, and look like this:
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Orang Utan said:
Yes. We call those pikelets although if you buy them in the supermarket they are labelled as crumpets
. What you call Scotch Pancakes we just call pancakes, or sometimes griddle cakes. My auntie calls them drop scones. I have no idea what the flat thing in the picture labelled a pikelet is 
not sure we have those here?
