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Crumpet n.

A cross between a cake, a biscuit (US usage) and a pancake. Once (possibly still in some quarters) enjoyed in England for breakfast, toasted and drowned with gobs of butter, a preserve or honey.

Possibly related to the Welsh pancake, or crempog, and the Breton krampoez. So probably of Celtic origin.

One of those "pan breads" that exists in virtually every culture in some form or another (tortilla, pannbröd, pancake, chapati, etc)

Also slightly outdated British English slang for a woman you find attractive. As in "Blimey, look at that piece a crumpet standin' over by the jukebox."

Find a recipe for the first kind here.

-- PW, who loves both kinds

PW, that's a lot of yeast to put into your breakfast. I think here we are mostly used to eating soda or baking powder breads i.e. bisquits, pancakes, cake all are made with baking powder.

mark just-an-observation Bailey

Bailey, I think there's a typo in the recipe. It looks like it should be one package OR one cake of yeast, not one of each. That's about normal for three cups of flour. Alas, the time and labor required to prepare the crumpets keeps most of us chowing down on sodium-containing baking powder-based breadstuffs for breakfast.

Crumpet n.
Also slightly outdated British English slang for a woman you find attractive. As in "Blimey, look at that piece a crumpet standin' over by the jukebox."
-- PW, who loves both kinds

-related to strumpet?

A rhyme brings to mind another favourite palidrome:
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!