My Name is Megan – And I’m a Royal Wedding-oholic.
Whew, does that feel good to get off my chest. It’s officially 5 Fridays until the Royal Wedding and I am in full swing and dribbling with royal wedding fever. Ever since puberty hit and I first actually noticed a boy, I had my eye on Prince William. C’mon, how could you not? Besides all of the obvious “every girl grows up wanting to be a princess” stuff, he had the blue eyes, good looks and compassion of Diana and the stand-tallishness, propriety and polo-fever of his father. Perfect man.
It may have taken years to accept, but I am now “okay” giving up my hopes and dreams of becoming a princess – instead becoming a country-esque and soon to be working wifey of a country farm boy who I dragged over to the big city to pursue nursing school. I think it’s a fair trade. At least this way, there is no incessant need to be on my A-game constantly, always done-up and hounded every day for the rest of my life. Really, I love my sweatshirts, muddy boots and jeans to much to give them up for anyone, even England.
But as we as a collective royal nerds wait in anticipation of The Big Day, I wanted to do a bit of a countdown. This countdown will be a once weekly series, on Fridays, culminating in a final dish on the wedding day itself. So today, I begin my series with…
Crumpets!
How predictably and traditionally English! Now trust me, there is no knockin’ tradition. The best equation I can come up with is a cross between a pancake and an English muffin. Either way, it’s fun and delicious.
The recipe I used was from some English food recipe, that of course I can’t find now – but I’m sad to inform you after all of this hype – that mine didn’t turn out as well as hoped. Dang you yeast!! Again, my yeast did not provide me with the required respect that I gave to it -but hey it was still fun and things never go as planned, especially when you’re under a time crunch.
Here it is with the 8 ounces of flour (by weight), 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 ounces water, 1 tablespoon yeast, Pam for spraying your pan and cookie cutters for shaping crumpets.
I chose to utilize my heart shaped cookie cutter for this exercise. How precious?
After pour the yeast and sugar into the warmed water and milk mixture, I let it set for 15 minutes. Alas, the yeast did not activate. Argh!!
After it rose again with the flour and salt now added in – it sat there for an hour minimally bubbling and only further aggrivating me. Much like my friend Haley had earlier this week with her mini-melt down – I felt the same with this.
But I chose to attempt it all the same. After lightly frying these little babies – and there being a lack of large bubbles and crevases being formed – they still turned out pretty tasty topped with jam.
I guess it’s out with the old yeast and in with the new. Determination will be key in this endeavor – please send your extra patience my way. I’m plum out.
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I would never be able to tell that your crumpets didn't turn out right. They look fantastic.
Your crumpets look fantastic! I would eat them!
I need to start getting on the band-wagon with this whole royal wedding thing too!
Don't you just love that clip from Julie and Julia? It's my favorite scene in the whole movie because I have had MANY of those moments. I can't wait to see your next royal wedding dish 🙂
Great idea for a series! I think your crumpets look divine, especially with the jam. I really have to crawl out from my rock and see Julie & Julia.
Crumpets aren't that easy to make, that's for sure. You did great though!
Have you read the recent Where Women Cook magazine (may/april/may)? In the magazine, one of the women was a royal chef for Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The recipe she gives at the end of the article was Prince Williams favorite treat! Maybe worth looking for the next time you are at the grocery store/barnes and noble!
how cute. love the heart shape
I was at Trader Joe's the other day looking at a packet of crumpets and thinking about what a terror they would be to make. I think it's adorable that you made them in heart-shapes!
Maybe you just have a dead jar of yeast?
Another reason why we’re friends…I was so glad I had that night off…I stayed up and watched the whole thing!
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