uniB Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 I agree that a pikelet is thinner and a crumpet is the fatter one that I love with melted cheese and mustard on, ummmm, yummy! I was originally from the Midlands and my mum called the deeper ones pikelets but I think I've formed my own conclusions as the years think she's wrong! If a pikelet is the deeper one, that would mean the thinner one has no name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tslogf74 Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I still remember my confusion in the sandwich shop when the lady asked me if I wanted french... I always called them pikelets, but what's a pike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaham Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I now live in Ashbourne on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border. They both have oatcakes, but they are different. Both are the size of plates, but the Derbyshire ones are a bit thicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyovmanor Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 being from london and i have always called them crumpets (whats it say on the packets ask yourself), same as bread cake i call them rolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottf Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Originally posted by Caz1 Pikelets are the flat thin versions..Crumpets are the round ones quite thick...this is always how it has been to me. yeah- me too!! Pikelets are deffo the thinner but larger one's!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bostonaire Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 ive searched high and low ...and sad to say only thing i found was this..look for crumpet!! http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Britain/Food/Teatime.htm#Bread ive always called them Pikelets too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBoogie Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I say pikelet for them both. Crumpet sounds stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Yep, crumpet is a silly southern word, pikelets are the real deal and let none from beyond t' boundaries say t'otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidla Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 I've never heard of a pikelet, that sounds like some sort of baby fish or something. It's definately a crumpet. You crayzee dee-dars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Originally posted by ladyovmanor being from london and i have always called them crumpets (whats it say on the packets ask yourself), same as bread cake i call them rolls. but how can a breadcake being large and circular in a flat sort of way, be a roll which by its very name is a ROLL???? and if you call a breadcake a roll, what would you call a bread roll then? when I first lived in London in the late sixties, I remember going into a rather twee bakers on Putney High St and asking for breadcakes, the assistant (in black dress and white pinny) said "you mean a bread roll madam" getting out a tray of mingy little bridge rolls ... they didn't have even what they call yorkshire baps in those days, it was a long time ago .... (what with pikelets/ crumpets/oatcakes/ muffins never mind breadcakes/teacakes/breadrolls, ruby is getting very confused by all this and just glad she doesn't work in a bakers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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