Homemade crumpets

Ingredients

125 ml	Water
125 ml	Milk
2 tsp	Sugar
2 tsp	Active dried yeast
115 g	Flour
½ tsp	Salt
½ tsp	Baking soda
125 ml	Water, warm

Directions

1. Warm the water and milk, then whisk in the sugar and yeast. Allow to rest for 10 minutes while the yeast starts to activate.
2. Stir in the flour and salt and mix well to form a dough. Cover and leave to prove until double in size (allow about an hour).
3. Mix baking soda with warm water and fold through the yeast dough to form the crumpet batter. Allow to rest for 30 minutes.
4. Heat up the flat plate on the barbecue or a large frying pan until hot, place metal rings down, then brush a little canola oil around the rings and on the bottom, spoon the crumpet batter into the rings, approx 1½ cm deep.
5. Cook until bubbles begin to form on the top of the crumpets, remove the rings then carefully flip over and cook for 30 seconds.
6. Keep in a warm oven until all crumpets are cooked, or serve them straight up. Drizzle with runny honey, maple or golden syrup and knobs of salted butter.