Zebra Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 GRRRRRRR My partner has just come home after collecting some pikelets which he denies are real. A pikelet to me, as a real Sheffield lass, is a round bread like thing with lots of holey bits in the top, should be toasted with butter, cheese, jam or whatever melted on top, generally in abundance. Not the big round flat things with holes in which go all floppy at the first sign of butter. This, to me, is an inferior pikelet. Now as he isn't from Sheffield he says they are crumpets. I've have a vast amount of recent conversations with people from Sheffield who agree with me, in Sheffield, these delicacies are PIKELETS. I don't mean what it says on the pack, I'm not interested in the techinical terms, are these items pikelets to Sheffielders or not. Please help me settle this argument cos it's doing my NUT. P.s aware there has been similar thread in past but it seems inconclusive to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracie Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 I'm from London originally (I've lived in Doncaster / Sheffield for two years now) and personally, I've always called them Pikelets...although thats probably because my stepfather called them Pikelets (he's a Northern lad through and through). Most people in the South do call them Crumpets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Pikelets (but I did live down south for a few years. Isn't crumpet a Lancastrian phrase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 I agree with you Zebra, Pikelets... To my mind, crumpets are solid thin little cakes which you can cut in half and toast and have with butter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 55 yrsago I used to come out of school on Cavendish St, walk down Division St to the pikelet shop and buy one hot off the hotplate for a halfpenny. I'm afraid they were large, round, flat and floppy. Sorry hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Contrary to popular belief, pikelets and crumpets are not the same thing. Pikelets are exactly the same as crumpets, in size, texture and taste but are more flat, as if they haven't risen. I'm sure Asda sell both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskel Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 im 18 lived in same house all me life in sheffield! n i call them crumpets!! always have, always will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marycrookes Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Don't forget "oat cakes" these were big and floppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gracejanet Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 well i am a southern and to me they are crumpets, my husband from sheffield calls them pikelets, other differences which call arguements are fishcakes (me) rissoles (him) and breadcakes(him) baps(me). now we are living in sheffield for the first time i find the whole force of his family in arguement against me i think i'm losing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat1978 Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Originally posted by alchresearch Contrary to popular belief, pikelets and crumpets are not the same thing. Pikelets are exactly the same as crumpets, in size, texture and taste but are more flat, as if they haven't risen. I'm sure Asda sell both. but arent they scotch pancakes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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