# A new breakfast delight
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484 "2016-01-08T11:25:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/1 "2016-01-08T11:25:37Z")
Scrambled egg (just egg & butter) on crumpets, with a grind of pepper and a dusting of parmesan. And bacon.
Nom.
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### Author:  [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/2 "2016-01-08T18:17:59Z")
I LOVE crumpets, But with clotted cream and strawberry jam. Have trouble finding the clotted cream though…
I wonder if its easy to bake crumpets?
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/3 "2016-01-08T19:19:18Z")
So like an Egg McMuffin but with pepper and a different type of cheese? It is a tasty combo.
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/4 "2016-01-08T19:33:03Z")
To me a crumpet is a vanilla cake with butterscotch frosting but I assume you mean something different.
ETA: I guess what I was thinking of is called a Krimpet…I always called them Crumpets.
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### Author:  [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/5 "2016-01-08T20:56:19Z")
> [@NVME702-redux](#):
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> I LOVE crumpets, But with clotted cream and strawberry jam. Have trouble finding the clotted cream though…
Are you sure you’re not thinking of scones? Because in that case what you’ve described is pretty much [cream tea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_tea).
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### Author:  [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/6 "2016-01-08T21:00:18Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> So like an Egg McMuffin but with pepper and a different type of cheese? It is a tasty combo.
They make Egg McMuffins with crumpets now?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/7 "2016-01-08T21:24:10Z")
For those who don’t know, the British crumpet is not unlike, yet not entirely the same as, what we Americans call an “English muffin”.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/8 "2016-01-08T21:28:59Z")
I had scrambled eggs with fresh asparagus and some low-fat cheese, and ate them with apple slices and an English muffin. OM NOM NOM!
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/9 "2016-01-08T21:42:43Z")
You know what they call an Egg McMuffin in France?
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/10 "2016-01-08T22:06:06Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> For those who don’t know, the British crumpet is not unlike, yet not entirely the same as, what we Americans call an “English muffin”.
Which makes no sense to me. That’s not what the word “crumpet” _sounds_ like it should mean. Judging by the sound, “crumpets” should be something like [cream horns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_horn) or [bugles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles). At any rate, they definitely shouldn’t be flat. Crumpled trumpets aren’t flat.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/11 "2016-01-08T22:20:23Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Which makes no sense to me. That’s not what the word “crumpet” _sounds_ like it should mean. Judging by the sound, “crumpets” should be something like [cream horns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_horn) or [bugles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles). At any rate, they definitely shouldn’t be flat. Crumpled trumpets aren’t flat.
Well, since they etymology of “crumpet” has not one damn thing to do with trumpets, that’s a good thing.
> [@Wiktionary](#):
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> 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. Alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”).
ETA: NB: I’m not disputing the “crumpled” part of your assertion. That’s supported in the primary definition given. But “trumpet?”:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/12 "2016-01-08T22:26:27Z")
> [@gnoitall](#):
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> But “trumpet?”:rolleyes:
I freely admit that mine is a personal and idiosyncratic view (i.e. I’m a crackpot).
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/13 "2016-01-13T00:07:06Z")
> [@NVME702-redux](#):
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> I wonder if its easy to bake crumpets?
I do mine in the toaster.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/14 "2016-01-13T00:15:20Z")
Since there seems to be confusion, [gaze ye](http://realfood.tesco.com/media/images/121401-HERO-9fd1befd-3178-46b4-9b87-1da9c3e35697-0-472x310.jpg) on the glory that is the [British crumpet](http://sundayhotpants.com/crumpets/).
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/15 "2016-01-13T00:24:15Z")
Congratulations. You’ve discovered the Bacon & Egg McMuffin.
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### Author:  [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/16 "2016-01-13T00:28:57Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Which makes no sense to me. That’s not what the word “crumpet” _sounds_ like it should mean. Judging by the sound, “crumpets” should be something like [cream horns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_horn) or [bugles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles). At any rate, they definitely shouldn’t be flat. Crumpled trumpets aren’t flat.
I agree with the last part; I think they would be sharp.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/17 "2016-01-13T01:18:09Z")
Crumpets, like English muffins, aren’t baked. They’re cooked on a griddle. Crumpets are made with a much wetter dough than muffins, almost a batter, which, as it cooks slowly on the griddle, fills up with vertical holes. When you buy them already made, you can (and should) toast them, then butter them liberally, and top with your choice of jam, honey, or, as our brave OP has attempted, something savoury.
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/18 "2016-01-13T03:30:20Z")
> [@araminty](#):
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> Crumpets, like English muffins, aren’t baked. They’re cooked on a griddle. Crumpets are made with a much wetter dough than muffins, almost a batter, which, as it cooks slowly on the griddle, fills up with vertical holes. When you buy them already made, you can (and should) toast them, then butter them liberally, and top with your choice of jam, honey, or, as our brave OP has attempted, something savoury.
[They aren’t terribly difficult to make, either.](http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/crumpets-recipe)
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### Author:  [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/19 "2016-01-13T03:58:14Z")
If you have an egg ring - grease it & cook a stirred egg in a covered non-stick pan with 2 tablespoons of water. Medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
Perfectly cooked egg for a muffin or crumpet. Just like Micky D’s.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-breakfast-delight/742484/20 "2016-01-13T08:56:32Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Congratulations. You’ve discovered the Bacon & Egg McMuffin.
They don’t add the Parmesan. And I rather doubt they scramble their eggs with butter.
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