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a sponge that pretends to be bread, then drinks your butter like a sponge
means A soft, round, holey griddle cake, cooked on one side so its top is riddled with little craters perfect for soaking up melted butter, usually toasted and eaten warm.
from The word surfaces in English by the 1690s, but its deeper roots are genuinely murky. The popular guess links it to an older 'crompid cake' — a curled or bent cake — from a Middle English word meaning 'curled up,' itself possibly tied to 'crumb' and 'crump' (something bent or crumpled). There may also be a Welsh cousin in 'crempog,' a kind of pancake, though whether English borrowed it or merely shares a family resemblance is unsettled. So: a small bent cake whose precise ancestry, fittingly, has more holes than its top.
- hole science
- Bubbles form from baking soda hitting the wet batter
- british slang
- Once meant an attractive person, not breakfast
- ring required
- Cooked in metal hoops to trap the batter
- one side only
- Browned on the bottom, pale and pocked on top
thomas crumpets — the brand founded by peter crumpet in england in 1960, still sold across uk supermarkets
warrant crumpet — thick toasted crumpet served with butter and jam at uk tea time, particularly in yorkshire