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hello there I have just arrived here from asking for a recipe for staffordshire oatcakes and find myself on this lovely site where I can converse about allsorts!!!!! I actually made oatcakes last night but will now try a slightly different recipe to night. Did you guess I dont live in staffordshire any more there are no oatcake shops here. Anymore recipes out there for oatcakes and pikelets.

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Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhh; i would murder a "real" pikelet, but it's one of the sacrifices i had to make when i started wandering around the world.

I found this via Google, but i personally would refer tho them as "Scotch pancakes" (i am originially a Brummie! Ain't regional differences great!)

http://www.recipezaar.com/102655

That's from Australia. I shall keep looking, meanwhile, welcome to hootoo; i see you are in Lil's clutches; you will be safe as far as is concerned, but she is a bit odd about men being used as floor coverings.

zdt (zen devil Terri.)

YO!!!!!


Found the Real Mc Coy; none of this "Down Under" nonsense! (i will be buried in a termites nest for that remark)


This site involves Badgers, so it must be good. 2 Legs will be alerted & the pervs will arrive shortly. Do not fret, dear innocent Newbie, we are mostly harmless & eat pikelets.

http://www.fatbadgers.co.uk/Britain/recipe.htm

zdt

I'm from near Brum too, Terri, and I'd call them Scotch pancakes as well. I want some now.

Me too. I will marry anyone who sends me pikelets & Scotch pancakes .Especially pikelets. It's the way the butter drips through the holes.

Have you noticed they don't taste right unless you cut them in half after toasting? Plus the underside takes about 1/3 longer than the holy side. It is an art form.

They sell "muffins" in France, but i don't really see the point unless you have a mule.

*sigh*

zdt

Is there a difference between pikelets and crumpets?

Now, there's a question which has confounded people & probably started wars......


http://www.answers.com/topic/crumpet

zdt

I love crumpets

So do i. If you Really Loved Me you would send me crumpets. Or Pikelets. Not Muffins though, you can get those here. Swap you for some Brie or Camembert?

zdt

Won't they be dry and out of date before they get to you?

Pikelet can refer to either:

In Australia, New Zealand, and the English midlands and northwest, a small, thick colonial-style pancake, known in parts of Britain as a drop-scone or Scotch pancake. See Pancake.
A British regional dialect word variously denoting a flatter variant on crumpet, a standard crumpet or muffin. See Crumpet.

The white ones about an inch thick with holes on one side into which the cholesterol sinks. The other side is pale brown.
Toast the flat, pale brown side first, watch like a hawk, soon as the edges get dark brown, turn them over.
Then toast the holy side till it is caramel coloured.
Burn hands, extract, add cholesterol; cut in half, pile another on top.

Retire to warm; hidden, person-free space with heavily sugared tea;(the communal bathroom is good) consume, drool & possibly face the day. Or go back to bed.

If pikelets were available on the NHS during Winter, the drug companies might go out of business. To be honest, a decent pikelet would totally change my outlook on life right now.

zdt*will marry anyone who supplies her with pikelets & Enid Blyton books. Or consent to adoption, or donate organs (you would have to be very desperate)*

Repeat as necessary.