New Make/Bake 15 - Rarebit Crumpets

After a very hectic week at work, I was feeling fairly disappointed with myself as pretty much every meal with a lazy one! However, as from Saturday I have a whole week off work so have time to spare which I aim to put to use in the kitchen!

My make/bake of choice was Rarebit Crumpets

After a lovely lie-in, I decided it was too late for breakfast but I didn't want to wait until lunch to eat, so brunch it was! I had a packet of crumpets in the fridge and had been longing to try this recipe since I was it in the Feb issue of Good Food magazine.

Now I feeling admit, I am a savoury person. Like all girls, I am partial to the odd piece of chocolate but if I'm given the choice to pick between between a bar of chocolate and a bag of crisps then I'll pick the crisps every time. My main food "weakness" is cheese so anything with that as a key ingredient is bound to be a winner in my book and that was definitely the case with Rarebit crumpets! I love Rarebit, I always think of it as a luxury cheese on toast which is one of my all time favourite comfort foods, and seeing a M has never tried Rarebit before (he was worried it was something to do with Rabbit bless him!)  I thought it was a brilliant reason for a Saturday brunch treat!

The recipe calls for beer, however M and I thought it was a teeny bit early to crack open the booze so I switched it for milk.  I also halved the recipe and I found that I had enough to cover 6 crumpets (we were feeling greedy).

Wow, I thought they were delicious. A fair bit more effort than your usual Cheese on Toast but for a special occasion they were worth the effort. The spring onion added a really nice bite. M said it would have been nice with some meat (no surprise there) but said he'd definitely have Rarebit again. Success!