Crumpets with honey butter: say "good morning!" with english style bread

Ingredients

CRUMPETS:

• 250 ml  whole milk
• 200 g plain flour
• 1 teaspoon Instant yeast
• 1 teaspoon caster or granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon table salt

HONEY BUTTER:

• 3 tablespoons honey
• 125 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ½ teaspoon Maldon sea salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (for frying)

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Preparation

• Mix together all the ingredients for the crumpets in a bowl, cover and leave in a warm place to double in volume for 20 minutes (or more, up to the room temperature).
• Whilst proving, make the butter. Beat the butter until fluffy and pale, add the salt, then fold in the honey. Put the bowl in the fridge.
• When the crumpet dough has doubled in butter volume, put a large frying pan over a moderate heat, add 1tbsp of the vegetable oil and place three greased metal rings in the pan.
• Spoon the crumpet mixture into the rings about 1.5 cm high. Allow the undersides tocook slowly until the mixture has set and the bubbles on top have burst.
• Repeat with the remaining oil and mixture, then serve with the butter.