I have a confession to make to you Dear Reader. You may not believe me but it’s true.
I don’t have that much of a sweet tooth.
Oh yes I know, the sugary confections that grace every page of this blog would certainly lead you to believe that I go for sweet over savoury but that is not really the case. That doesn’t mean of course that I won’t sulk when I don’t get dessert or that I won’t clap and giggle when a beautiful cake is laid before me. And if you take the dessert away too soon I may growl at you and hiss. But I always go for savoury rather than sweet to eat. Sweet is for looking at, for appreciating, for taking a dainty mouthful of but savoury is what I eat most often.
Like Easter buns that come out for Easter I start putting crumpets in my shopping trolley around Winter time. I bought packets as there was some sort of discount on buying two packs and then almost forgot about them when I went away traipsing around the country. I came back to some less fresh crumpets and eggs that needed using. Luckily I had just gone out with Queen Viv that afternoon for lunch at Clipper Cafe where we had both honed in on one dish: eggy crumpets and bacon.
We looked at each other and nodded as only two friends who have a sort of telepathy do. It arrived and it was swimming in a pool of maple flavoured syrup. They had French-toastified the crumpets by soaking them in egg and then pan frying them and they were gloriously good. And for my version I took a tip from True Blood and fried them in the fat that was rendered from the bacon. If anything the spongey holey nature of the crumpets was even better for soaking up the maple syrup and the bacon provided a salty contrast. And unlike pancakes which require making of batter (sometimes an insurmountable task on some Sundays) these are ready to dip already. If you are averse to the mere thought of bacon, eggs and maple syrup together you could leave out the maple but I couldn’t possibly say no to it. Hmm perhaps I’m not such a non sweets lover if the amount of maple I poured was any indication…
So tell me Dear Reader, are you a sweet or savoury person?
Eggy Crumpets & Bacon
Makes 2 crumpets
- 2-4 rashers thin bacon (depends on how much you like bacon, we went for four pieces)
- 1/2 teaspoon of oil for frying
- 2 crumpets
- 2 eggs
- Maple syrup to serve
1. Heat a frying pan on medium and when hot add the oil and the bacon and fry until crisp. Meanwhile beat the eggs in a shallow bowl and get ready to dunk the crumpets in the egg mixture. Set aside bacon on a paper towel lined plate.
2. There should be some bacon fat released in the pan but if there isn’t add a little more oil and then dunk the crumpet on both sides in the egg mixture and fry non hole side down for a couple of minutes. Pour a little extra egg in the holes while it is frying and then turn it over and fry for a minute or two until done.
3. Serve the eggy crumpets on a plate topped with bacon and then maple syrup poured liberally all over it. Like Greta Garbo said “And don’t be stingy baby” (although I don’t believe she was talking about maple syrup).
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We make a version of this with french toast, bacon and maple syrup, but crumpets are an inspired alternative to the french toast!
I prefer savory dishes too,
So delicious and simple!
SSG xxx
love that bowl and cup! I think I”m similar on the sweet vs. savoury – because I bake everyone thinks I”m a ‘sweet’ person, but it’s not an everyday thing.
What a grand idea, I absolutely love french toast and this I bet this is sensational!
Looks yum as! Like crumpety french toast…you get the best of both worlds! Reckon it would be good with golden syrup??
Savoury all the way! If I had some crumpets in my kitchen I would get myself out of my warm bed on this very cold public holiday morning:(
What a great idea! The little tunnels would soak up so much of the eggy goodness. Cooking in the bacon fat is a good idea too, keep the flavour profile going through the whole dish.
I’m like you, I’m definitely more a savoury person, although I do enjoy my sweets at times, and don’t DARE try to take my dessert plate off me before I’ve licked it clean!
Oooh! I made a version of these last week but I added freshly grated parmesan to the egg mix and it was amazing!!! Such a delicious and easy breakfast!
I used to be a chocolate/sugary person before I got pregnant but now I crave salty savoury things more than anything.
I try not to play favourites as I feel both sweet and savoury have their merits and I am prepared to embrace either depending on my mood. I guess it’s because I’m greedy.
I’m definitely more of a savoury person as well! I am dieting too and if someone brings in chocolates or sweets of any kind, I can resist. But if there are sausage rolls at morning tea, I just don’t go!
where are your egg and butter bowls from!? they are adorable! and i must acquire some
Sweet, sweet, sweet over savoury, everytime!! Why do I love cake so much, it’s my downfall? Starting Thursday I’m back at the gym because I’ve put on what I lost last year
Great idea for crumpets, will try this out for the family on a slothful Sunday.
Awesome idea, eggy crumpets!!! I have to try this one
And I love the bowl, whip me into a frenzy, is too cute.
I, like you, am definitely a savoury person. In fact, I had ham for breakfast while Jason, like a normal person, had yoghurt and museli. I do love my desserts, but I will always choose savoury over it..
What a shame I saw this AFTER I had breakfast! I like both but must admit I hanker for salty more. (I kind of gag when I eat buttercream). Love this dish and covet your bowl.
For breakfast these days I am ALL about sweet. I used to not be so fussed with it though, not sure where this change has come from. I made these for Ben, it’s a really fun recipe! Man I love crumpets.
Heidi xo
Lovely Lorraine… super breakfast and waste not, want not is my motto. Pain perdu with a an English twist. I am fortunate to have a 1/2 gallon of Vermont maple in my fridge… the crumpets may take a trip to the market! It does look awfully good!
Don’t believe you, don’t believe you, don’t believe you!
! Well, if you say so! 
! So, on this cool and increasingly damp day you tempted us with French Toast made with crumpets? Interesting! That yours truly is a totally savoury peerson you have known for eight months, BUT, I like LOOKING at all the beautiful cakes too, and have been known to take a bite – I mean when a friend has baked for a dinner, you glory in a few bites! Hope you get SOME time off!
Eggy Crumpets! Having shared it on my facebook I’ll have to go and make it Yummee! Thankyou Lorraine for your fabulous website that is so reeal and exciting. I read that you love kitcsh and I you’re just a HOOT!
Gracias
Margie
Oh wow crumpets are the perfect thing for soaking up egg! I’m going to give this a go with cinnamon and strawberries.
I really can’t choose. I like to alternate sweet and savoury.
Yummy! That is the kind of breakfast I’d love to wake up to.
Cheers,
Rosa
aw I love that bowl, how cute!! mmm bacon is always the way to go for brekky!
Savoury savoury savoury all the way. Sweets have never been that big a deal [I agree, good to look at, have a little taste and then hand it over to someone who will consume the entire dish]. But put a piece of meat/fish/fowl of any description cooked in almost anyway [or not] and I’m your slave – well, until the meal is finished
If I could only eat one of sweet or savory for the rest of my life…it’d be pretty little sweet things for me!
What a devine texture the eggy goodness in the bubbles of the crumpet! I love melting cheese into the holes…
Crumpets are hubby’s fav winter breaky…or even dipped in vege soup mmmm I think I’ll try n make some soon…I hear they are 10times better than bought ones!
I too am a savoury person, much an all i enjoy drooling over gorgeous cakey & desert offerings, I enjoy my savoury stuff the best – even down to my latest concoction of leftovers soup that has just improved with age with hot baked bread rolls and slatherings of butter or ricotta, or both mmmmmm
I always thought bacon with maple syrup was weird until I tried it ia Los Angeles and now I love it!
I like both sweet and savoury. I just love the taste of bacon. I could never be a vegetarian, unless I had to kill the poor animal myself.
Love the idea of french toast crumpets…how about french toast croissant? (sweet brain kicking in….) YUMMM!
oh yum… looks at sugar and fat content *heart attack*
I LOVE that you’re a maple syrup/ bacon fan too, it truely is an incredible combo! I’ll be making this for a special breakfast in bed next weekend! Yummo!
A revelation! I love pancakes, maple syrup and bacon (a holiday hotel favourite breakfast) but this is doable at home when I’m too lazy to make pancakes. Pity I don’t have any bacon at home now – may try with ham instead just because it is lunch time and you’ve made me hungry.
And I used to be a dessert person, but these days (post major abdominal surgery) I much prefer savoury, and especially salty.
I will definitely be trying this. I’ve never had bacon and maple syrup together and since I’m a sweet tooth person, i should give this a go.
I am definitely a savoury girl. I eat my french toast with salt – unapologetically.
I don’t like cakes all that much (cheesecake is an entirely different story) and I’ll never order desert at a restaurant unless it’s a part of a set menu, and even then I’d give most of it to others with far more sugar inclined taste buds.
I’d eat a bowl of broccoli over a bowl of ice-cream any day.
I think I might have to give this a try, as I’ve never been a big fan of crumpets – but this could be something exciting.
I don’t have a sweet tooth at all and I find it hard to mix sweet and savoury at the same time.
I would never have thought of ‘French Crumpets’!
I am both a savoury and sweet tooth, the important thing for me is not to mix the two together in the same dish.
Can’t stand sultana in couscous, pineapple on pizza and things like that.
OMG, the day has come! A time when we actually are opposites about something. Can it be? But yes….if given the choice, I will almost always pick sweet over savory. LOL Not that I don’t love savory flavors; it’s just that I have a giant sweet tooth I must tend to. :0
I love French toast with bacon so I’ll have to try this version. I love savoury and sweet together so this covers all bases. Win, win!
Oo.. I love those little cute bowls you have with the eggs in them!! WANTSSSSS!!!!!!
ooooooh, this is just lovely! I love crumpets soo much, but wonder why I’ve never thought to make them into french toast goodness! thanks so much for the post! sometimes when I was at school, the only thing that would get me out of bed on a winters morning was the thought of peanut butter on a wholemeal crumpet…but this is better! I like equal sweet and savoury…always been an in the middle type of person…boring..but thats the way it is…thankyou xo
It’s okay, we can still be friends. In fact, it might work out better this way – when we meet up, you can finish my savoury meat dishes and I’ll polish off your cheesecake
I could go for this dish right about now:)
Love the ‘butter me up’ butter jar and ‘whip me into a frenzy’ egg bowl – they are gorgeous… but the eggy crumpets, OMG. Hunting out my recipe for crumpets as it is too wet to walk to the shop to buy them and I have to make this for brekky tomorrow.
Dear, Lorraine…These “Eggy Crumpets & Bacan are a SIN. Why are you encouraging people sin?!! WOW. You naughty girl.
Anyhow…
“Not that I won’t clap and giggle when a beautiful cake is laid before me.”
~~that sentence tickled me!
Once again, thanks for the lovely distractions of your delicous sins :O
I feel the same way as you about admiring sweets and tucking into savoury – but also that maple syrup goes very well with savoury – it even pained me to see sylvia ignoring her maple syrup when she went out for lunch with me today – surely maple syrup is irresistible – she will learn!
Yum yum yum!!! French toast with syrup (maple of course) and bacon is a staple breakfast where I’m from in Northern Canada, but I never thought of using crumpets instead of bread! Nice one!!! And sweet vs savoury is a toss up for me. I love them both!
I just had some lovely ricotta pancakes this morning that was swimming in maple syrup… Next time, I shall make crumpets and bacon at home. YUM!
A little bit, well, a big bit then, of both I think. My natural inclination would be to say savoury, but I think really it’s both. Sunday brekky is my favourite meal of the week and of life. I make my own and thoroughly enjoy it, but may have to try this one you have shared some day soon too
I am so doing this for breakfast tomorrow, you have just inspired me to wake up in the mornings. haha. Thanks Lorraine.
As mad as I am for chocolate i’m also a savoury lover at heart. I looooove American pancakes so this looks sensational to me!
Savoury all the way, I work in a small office of 12 women + 3 men, for an occaisional morning tea we crack open a bag of chips and have cheese and crackers sounds bad I know but is it worse than cakes!!!
I love crumpets but they are hard to toast just right(without the bottom burning before the top is cooked) this may be the answer.
OMG! To think I started the second chapter of my novel-in-progress with bacon and eggs. No crumpets, though, as I’m not sure if hotels in Singapore serve crumpets. (It’s where the chapter’s set.)
As for sweet or savory, I guess I’m a little of both.
Cute egg bowl!..For a little over a year, I have had a sweet tooth 24/7. The normal cravings for me are salty, fried, greasy (and with lots of cheese in Mexican food.)Chocolate is FOOD! I adore it. And I adore it even more with liquor. But the buttery, flaky pastry with a blizzard of powdered sugar will probably be the death of me.
I love french toast. I love crumpets. How have I never thought to combine them?! Thankyou for inspiring my next breakfast Lorraine!! P.S. When I get super fat, I’m going to be coming to you to help me deal with it! hehe
MMMmmm bacon and maple syrup. A match made in breakfast heaven. You just improved this with those awesome looking crumpets.
I love maple syrup with bacon! I have to admit I was surprised when you commented on my 7 facts, saying that – like me – you prefer savory to sweet.
Delish! The perfect breakfast. I am more of a sweet than savoury person, but every now and again, I shun the sweets for savoury. Just like the Osmonds – a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
*drool* I can have some of that right now!!
Yes, I was indeed surprised to learn that you don’t have much of a sweet tooth! Then we’re the same, I prefer savoury dishes, but I still do enjoy eating small bites of dessert!
This looks so intriguing and daring, I’ve never tried combining sweet (maple syrup) and savoury (bacon) together…! But it looks really good!
How easy and how yummy-looking!
Hi everyone! Thanks for your sweet comments! Wasn’t it the perfect weather for staying and snuggling with eggy crumpets?
For those that asked the bowl and cup were loaned to me by my lovely friend The Second Wife who blogs at She Goes. They’re signed at the bottom by Deb Taylor. I did a little google search and there’s a website that sells them here: http://www.littlewhitedish.com.au/ceramics_tableware.asp
xxx
I think I might be exactly like you in terms of wanting savoury versus sweet dishes. I love sweet things no doubt, especially the really pretty ones but most of the time I can only take in a few mouthfuls of it. If I eat a whole dish myself, I will get sick afterwards.
This looks like such an easy yet delicious meal. The only thing with me is I’m not very good at waking up in the morning so making breakfast is always a challenge.
Genius idea these… French-crumpets! I love the little holes for soaking up the butter.. i guess soaking up the egg and bacon fat is the same thing on steroids!
oh my goodness, this is exactly what I need. my friend told me eggs and bacon are the best cure for a hangover lol. i’m not sure if i trust him on that one but this looks soooooo good right now!
Oh yum! Love the combo of salty and sweet, but if I have to chose between a starter and a dessert I would go for the savoury starter. I could live off just starters I think…
Good heavens, I saw Jamie Oliver make something identical recently…in an old show. Simple and delicious. Luckily, I can get crumpets easily. I like this idea way more than regular old boring French toast!
Drool!
This looks so good, Lorraine! I’m a sweet/savory girl all in one dish so the maple with the bacon in this really does it for me!
I’m a savoury woman, although when I was in my teens and 20s, I was a sweets girl. And chocolate, couldn’t get enough of it. Something happened in my 30s and I now prefer savoury everytime. Except like you, I love maple syrup with bacon!
mmm – I must try this.
I love pancakes with banana & bacon.
what a lazy and yummy way to make breakfast
Oh that’s a great idea for using crumpets. I am definitely a savoury person, I would rather have an entree and main than a main and dessert! Although there is no problem sometimes having all 3..
Its good that you have a preference – I prefer both…my thighs dont though lol.
This looks so delicious!
Hmm. I love crumpets but am not sold on the bacon with maple syrup concept yet. I just like them with vegemite!
savoury all the way.
But I love me some chocolate.
Anyone that hasn’t tried bacon with PURE maple syrup simply hasn’t lived.
*drool*
That looks delicious. I had french toast, bacon and maple syrup for the first time a few years ago and have loved it ever since. Im a big fan of sweets with savouries, like pork and apple and turkey and cranberry. I love all food, i couldnt imagine living without some particular savouries, that being said, i must have sweets!! I get giddy and excited just thinking about what desserts i could make or have,i just love dessert!
I am definitely a savoury person, as its my birthday today, i think i might try this instead of my eggs benedict. Will let you know the outcome
We really are alike. I’m savory (american spelling) all the way. But, like you, I have all these sweet things I make on my blog. I only ever take one bite and sometimes no bites of the things I bake. I like to smell them and look at them and give them to others to eat. Lorraine, that’s probably why we are not 300 pounds!
Haha love True Blood – bacon grease!
Lorraine I am shocked at your confession! Though I suppose we really should eat savoury more than sweet
I have a confession – I’ve never tried maple syrup & bacon together. I am so keen on this eggy crumpet though that I must try it
Awwhhh….. now that’s a nice touch, hadn’t thought of that for a quick ‘french toast’ sorta do. Good one Lovely
i don’t have a sweet tooth. no, all my teeth are sweet. given the choice between sweet and savory, i’ll go with the sweet every single time (unless said sweet happens to be flan…ick!).
I used to be all about the sweets (and I guess in a way I still am) but as I get older I find myself more drawn to savory foods. These crumpets look delicious!
Savoury especially if it is hot and has pastry, cheese, and bacon in it. Sweet, bring on the high teas.
I can’t make up my mind.
I am way too sweet
Often I have cake for lunch. Have never seen crumpets done this way they look good, I am a huge fan of maple syrup and bacon.
oh yum. that’s such a good idea- i wish i had crumpets…
I’ve never fried crumpets in egg. Now I wonder why… Thank you for the brilliant idea, I think I know what I’m having for brunch this weekend.
Give me bacon over biscuits and cheese over chocolate any day. Although that is the one acceptable time..adding maple syrup to the bacon!
What a great and easy breakfast dish, an acceptable balance between sweet and savory!! Id have more bacon though and a potato rosti too!
Could do it with any buns or bread with nice aeration for soaking up the egg.
A late comment, but I’m still finding my way through your blog. I find that the wholemeal crumpets are more like the ones I grew up with in the ’60′s, and less gluggy.
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