Bowl 1

Put the both the flours into the bowl. Add the yeast to one side and the caster sugar to the other.

Add the milk all at once

Dough whisk: beat until all ingredients are thoroughly combined

Mixer: mix slowly for a minute before. Switch to medium and continue for 5 minutes.

Remove the bowl, cover and leave in a warm place for about 1 hour and half. The mixture should rise and then fall back a little.

Jug

Mix the lukewarm water, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a jug

Combine

Stir in the contents of the jug thoroughly into the bowl

Leave to stand for 20 minutes. You should see bubbles start to form in the combined mixture.

Heat a skillet or heavy frying pan, lightly oiled with sunflower oil, to medium heat

Grease the crumpet rings

Place the crumpet rings in the pan and spoon in the batter to about 1cm thick

The crumpets should heat through gently until bubbles form all over the surface. When the surface is completely set, turn the crumpets over, gently pushing the crumpets to the opposite end of crumpet ring so that the surface would be just reaching the pan.

Remove after one minute

Serve immediately with butter