Crumpets

How crumpets came into being is unknown. The earliest references to them are to be found in the late 17th century, when they were made from buckwheat flour and sound very similar to blinis, the small Russian yeast pancakes served with caviar. Elizabeth Raffald, the eighteenth-century cookery writer, described something very similar to today’s crumpets in 1769, by which time they were made from a wheat-flour batter raised with leaven — a piece taken from the day’s bread dough – and cooked on