Pikelets

[ererbus]

why do we have to ask for Crumpets now when we always knew them as Pikelets?

[2sp_]

As in crumpets the baked thingy?

I've never heard them called pikelets before? Is that a regional thing?

[emeritus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikelet

[emeritus]

It seems crumpets are called Pikelets mainly in

Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire

[2sp_]

Thanks emeritus, I'd never heard them called that before.

[Daffy6543]

I grew up in Leicester and we called them Pikelets.

[craft1948]

I'm in York and we call them crumpets.......whatever their name they are only an excuse for eating loads of butter.

[2sp_]

And jam, crafty...

[mazie]

Born in Nottingham and we called them Pikelets.. Yuk!

[craft1948]

Waitrose own crumpets are lush......

[LyndaB]

I've never called them pikelets

[mazie]

I just hate the texture..

[mazie]

It makes my teeth itch

[2sp_]

Who says you can't call them pikelets any more, ererbus?

[Tilly2]

Pikelets are something different in Stoke.

Pikelet, a North Staffordshire delicacy. A thicker form of oatcake with raisins added.
They are nothing like crumpets.

[Brinjal]

What I new as a pikelet was like a thicker pancake batter as a crumpet was thicker and made with yeast more bready.

[tezmand]

im in west bromwich and we call em pikelets too says crumpets on the packet though

[chris1957au]

Nice with cheese on too

[marval]

Ooh, they are lovely with marmite.

[hc4361]

From the West Midlands and they are pikelets to me

[catswhiskas]

Grew up in Lincolnshire, my mother called them pikelets