What could be tastier than homemade crumpets made from soft and airy dough, especially if they are "fresh from the oven." Kneading requires the simplest products that can be found in almost any refrigerator.
Soda crumpets (classic recipe)
Ingredients:
- 400 ml wheat flour
- 1 egg
- 100 ml of kefir
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 50 g butter
Cooking step by step:
1. In a deep dish, combine kefir and chicken egg, whisk and add baking soda. Stir in granulated sugar and salt. Melt the butter in a saucepan or microwave, add it to the kefir mixture.
2. Sift the flour through a kitchen sieve and stir in to the liquid mass, knead a rather thick dough. Wrap your hands around it, cover it with a clean cotton or linen tea towel and leave it in a warm room for half an hour.
3. On a floured table, roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a layer 1 centimeter high. Cut out round blanks using a thin-walled glass. Line a wide baking sheet with baking paper and brush with sunflower oil using a cooking brush.
4. Transfer the dough pieces onto the parchment and prick each piece with a fork in three places. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius and bake for 25 minutes until light blush. Carefully remove the finished donuts from the parchment and serve immediately.
Donuts with almonds
Ingredients:
- 300 g flour
- 75 g butter
- 50 g sugar
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 25 g almonds
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- jam
- powdered sugar
Cooking in stages:
1. Add 1 tbsp to the yeast. a spoonful of granulated sugar, rub a little. Pour in the milk (it should be quite warm) and stir in half a cup of sifted flour. Stir all the products for the dough, cover with a towel made of natural fabric (cotton or linen) and put it in a warm place for 50-60 minutes - the dough should noticeably increase in volume during this time.
2. When the dough comes up, stir in the melted butter, raw chicken egg, baking soda and the rest of the flour (which will need to be sifted through a sieve before that). Knead the dough with a fairly dense consistency, leave again in a warm place to rise well. Then divide it into about 50 g portions and roll up the round crumpets, leave to come.
3. Place oiled baking paper on a baking sheet and spread the buns that have come up on it. Brush each with a beaten egg using a silicone cooking brush and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius until browned.
4. Cool the finished crumpets, cut off the top of each. Brush the bottom of the bun with jam or jam and top with the whipped cream. Cover the filling with "lids". Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Cinnamon honey crumpets
Ingredients:
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 1 liter of warm milk
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour
- 200 g butter
- 2 tbsp. spoons of honey
- 1 egg
- Wheat flour
- cinnamon sugar mixture
Cooking in stages:
1. Crumble fresh yeast into a bowl, add milk (in no case should it be hot, otherwise the yeast will not rise) and add flour sifted through a sieve. Cover the bowl with a linen or cotton tea towel and set aside to warm for further proofing.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan, add liquid honey, keep on low heat until boiling, let the mixture simmer. Cool the butter-honey mixture to 37 degrees Celsius (hot bath temperature), beat in an egg and stir.
3. Introduce the risen dough and enough flour to make a dough thick enough to hold a spoon in. Take the dough to a warm room and let it come up for a while - wait until it doubles in volume.
four. When the dough comes up, knead it, knead it, let it come back a little and knead again. Make balls of dough and place on a wide baking sheet at a distance from each other, let the donuts stand a little and rise a little more.
5. On the surface of the stuck together rolls, make cuts with a knife in the form of a net, sprinkle on top with a mixture of sugar and ground cinnamon and bake in an oven heated to 120 degrees Celsius until golden brown.
Curd crumpets
Ingredients:
- 3 1/3 cups wheat flour
- 500 g of cottage cheese
- 40 g butter
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs + 2 yolks for brushing
- powdered sugar
Cooking in stages:
1. Wipe the curd until soft. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat or in a microwave oven. Stir all the ingredients for the dough, mold a ball and let it stand in the refrigerator for a while.
2. Roll the dough into a roll on a floured work surface, cut it into portions and form small round buns from each. Place on a baking sheet.
3. Shake the yolks, brush the surface of the crumpets with the yolks using a cooking brush and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius until a blush appears. Remove the crumpets from the oven, remove from the baking sheet and roll in the powdered sugar.
Curd crumpets "Lakomka"
Ingredients:
- 250 g wheat flour
- 500 g of cottage cheese
- 250 g butter
- 125 g sugar
- 25 g raisins
- 1 small chicken egg
Cooking step by step:
1. Mash cottage cheese with previously softened butter, add wheat flour sifted through a sieve. Stir. On a floured table, roll out the curd dough in a layer 1 centimeter high. Cut out round tortillas with a thin-walled glass.
2. Shake a raw egg, grease the workpieces with it. Sprinkle the cakes with granulated sugar, and in the center of each place a couple of washed and dried raisins. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees Celsius until a blush appears.
American plumpers (donuts)
Ingredients:
- 400 g wheat flour
- 20 g yeast
- pinch of sugar
- 1 cup warm water
- 50 g butter
- 2 teaspoons of salt
- vegetable oil for deep fat
Cooking in stages:
1. Mix yeast with granulated sugar, pour in water. Then add the sifted wheat flour, salt and butter (it should be soft enough). Leave the dough to rise for 40 minutes.
2. Knead the dough on a work table, which should first be sprinkled with a small amount of flour. Form the crumpets in a round shape with a hole in the center. Heat vegetable oil in a deep heat-resistant dish and dip the crumpets there for a short period of time until browning.
3. Place the donuts on a baking sheet (pre-covered with baking parchment), place the bagels in the 220 degrees Celsius oven for 20 minutes and bake until tender. Cool it down.
Tip: Ready-made American crumpets can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or covered with any icing and decorated with pastry sprinkles. However, you can make a savory snack from donuts. To do this, cut the crumpets in half, brush with soft cream cheese and add a slice of smoked salmon. Cover with cut lids on top. From this number of products, 12 crumpets are obtained
Greek crumpets
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dry yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/3 cup warm water
- 3 cups wheat flour
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp. spoonful of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- vegetable oil
Cooking step by step:
1. Stir all the products for the dough and remove to a warm place for ten minutes, bubbles should appear on the surface of the dough during this time. Add all other batter ingredients (except vegetable oil) and drain for ten minutes.
2. Pour high-quality vegetable oil over the dough and let it stand in the heat for one hour. From the raised dough, mold 12 tortillas, place them on a baking sheet covered with oiled parchment and cook in a sufficiently hot oven (200-220 degrees Celsius) for 10 minutes.
3. Remove the prepared crumpets from the baking sheet, place on a serving dish and cover with a linen or cotton towel. Let them cool slightly.
Lemon crumpets
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of flour
- 100 g butter
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar
- 1 egg
- 13 g yeast
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 tbsp. spoon of water
- a few drops of lemon juice
Cooking step by step:
1. Stir warm water, yeast, pour in half of the warm milk and stir in half of the flour, which is preferably sifted through a sieve. Make a dough and leave it in a warm room for half an hour to rise.
2. Add granulated sugar, egg, butter, add all the rest of the flour, then stir in the lemon juice. Leave the dough to rise warm. Powder the kitchen table with a little flour, wrap the warm dough with your hands and mold 10 round buns from it.
3. Let them stand at room temperature, then place on an oiled baking sheet. Brush with yolk and bake at 220 degrees Celsius until a beautiful blush. Before baking the crumpets, if desired, you can cut a criss-cross with a knife and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
