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Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18312

I don't know how Starbucks grew so big in the US - No one I know likes their coffee! Also: Instant coffee is not coffee.

I ♥ coffee, metamit, and feel your pain.

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:37 pm

Can I say I just like a nice mug of tea first thing in the morning, or does that make me a bad person Crying or Very sad

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:13 pm

Not at all, just a different route to caffination.

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:28 pm

^Somebody made a point of making decaf teabags which just takes the fun out if it.

@Ima in my local shopping centre there's around 50 shops and 3 different coffee shops, all charging way over the odds, last time I went to a Starbucks I think I had a bottle of water as I couldn't find just a normal coffee.

05/29/15

/\/\/\ That's my gripe against Star$$$ -- WAY overpriced and not a REAL cuppa joe in the joint !!!

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

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Can I say I just like a nice mug of tea first thing in the morning...

This is just wrong on sooooo many levels, sir.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:46 am

^ I thought the Americans loved British culture? Especially the tea and the Queen.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

^^ ...and crumpets. Can't forget the crumpets.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:56 am

Uhh, they taste like a sponge, not that I've tried eating a sponge Confused

05/29/15

Whassa crumpet?

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:03 am

05/29/15

Thanks, B8er -- meh, looks like a split English muffin.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:15 am

Thanks, B8er, that looks delicious. I actually made them a couple weeks ago, with crumpet rings and all. Best hot with tons of butter.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:28 am

I'm with KOD - they look like an English muffin. Why do we call them English muffins when the English call them crumpets??

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:38 am

Bware will be along later to lecture everyone on how to use Google Wink

, but in the meantime http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-crumpets-113577

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:45 am

That's what I read as well. Taste them, they are different.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:52 am

Just to confuse KOD even more, I'll throw this in to the mix as well

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:55 am

^^ LOL

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Bware will be along later to lecture everyone on how to use Google Wink, but in the meantime http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-crumpets-113577

I stand corrected Wink

Who knew? I always thought a crumpet was a cookie. But I do love my English muffins, yes I do .... maybe I will have to try a crumpet now.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:08 pm

B8er wrote:

Bware will be along later to lecture everyone on how to use Google Wink

, but in the meantime http://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-crumpets-113577

^^^What he said.

I agree with Ima regarding that ever-expanding "coffee" place. I have found, outside my coffee at home, that served at my local gas (petrol) stations to be much better and one-third the price of those served by the Seattle snobs.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:06 pm

B8er wrote:

Talk about first world problems Laughing

Here in Europe, we're a bit more advanced, so we have a nifty solution

Thanks, but I only take acid when I want to get high. and I'm as European as it gets.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:46 pm

I don't have a clue if you can get them in the USA or not but the best english mufffins are called Lancashire Ovenbottoms, worth a try if you can get them.

These are the ovenbottom's;

and my recipe, if you can't get them in the USA:

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Ingredients
* 400g strong bread flour
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 tsp sugar
* 1 sachet instant dried yeast
* 1 desert spoon sunflower oil
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 3 fl ozs (85 ml) whole milk
* 6 fl ozs (170 ml) warm water

Recipe

* Place the flour in the bowl, add the salt and sugar, blend by hand with a whisk.
* Add the yeast, then blend again with a whisk.
* Add the butter and oil, place bowl on mixer.
* Mix for 5 mins.
*Pour the milk and warm water into a measuring jug and, while still at 1/2 speed, add the liquid to the mix around the rim of the bowl to distribute the liquid evenly.
* Cover bowl (not dough) with cling film, and leave in a warm place for 1 hour.
* Turn out on floured surface and form into a bread stick shape and divide the mix into 6 or 8 pieces, according to size required.
* Roll into a ball with your hands, until cool and slightly sticky.
*On floured surface, press lightly with hand, then with a small floured bread board, press down hard to form a round.
* Place on a greased baking tray, leave in a warm place for 30 mins.
* Pre heat fan oven to 200°C.
* After 30 mins, using a floured coaster or similar, press down on each muffin and reduce the risen amount by more than half, make hole in the centre with finger.
* Place tray in the hot oven, 2nd position down, and bake for 11 mins, turning the muffins over at 6 mins.
* Cool on a wire rack until cold.

05/29/15

/\/\/\ FM, Now I'm really getting fraudstrated -- what the hey is a desert spoon? You mean a DESSERT spoon, right? What the hey is a dessert spoon ???
Becoming more and more corn-fused by the minute!!!

@ B8er -- I read the artikal, which wasn't much help at all.

B8er wrote:

Just to confuse KOD even more, I'll throw this in to the mix as well

Thanks a bunch, ol' buddy, ol' pal ... Confused

@ Metamit -- yes, I thought a crumpet was some kind of cookie, too, or maybe a little cake.

Confused

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:04 pm

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I thought a crumpet was some kind of cookie,too, or maybe a little cake.

I figured if Little Miss Muffet was sitting on it, it might have been like a chaise or Davenport.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:07 pm

You might be thinking of a scone, they have raisains in and when you cut them in half they can look like a cookie.

KOD- Sorry I thought I edited all my typos our, yeah I meant dessert spoon. Embarassed

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:18 pm

KissOfDeath wrote:

@ Metamit -- yes, I thought a crumpet was some kind of cookie,too, or maybe a little cake.

So Crumpets are our English Muffins??? Shocked

Fr Moleman wrote:

These are the ovenbottom

Those look like what we call a Bagel. Spread it with creamed cheese. It is especially good with flavo(u)red cream cheese. Steam the bagel for best results.

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