Home-made Crumpet Recipe for a Tea Time Treat crum·pet Noun: Chiefly British 1. A round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted. 2. British Slang: An attractive woman. Origin: Anglo-Saxon 1350–1400; short for crumpetcake, curled cake, equivalent to Middle English crompid (past participle of crumpen, variant of crampen. which is to bend or curl) It snowed at the weekend, large feathery flakes started to fall at about Midnight on Saturday, just as I was making my way to bed…
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British Yorkshire Pudding Day, Slow Sunday and My Grandma’s Traditional Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
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