Forget the great British fry-up, granary toast and marmalade or a bowl of granola for your breakfast. They are old hat - didn’t you know a frumpet is where it’s at? I have to admit to being ignorant of this alternative brekkie offering until a couple of weeks ago. It was thanks to the free food magazine that I like to pick up in Tesco for meal inspiration that I was introduced to the supermarket’s “treat of the week” – chocolate cherry frumpets.
It has to be said the emphasis needs to be on “treat” here. READ MORE: The Turkish 'bubbling bowl of deliciousness' that has lived rent-free in my head for two weeks - review Keep up to date with all the latest breaking news and top stories from Grimsby with our free newsletter The Tesco traffic-light labelling on this recipe flags mainly amber nutritional tags, plus a red for the sugar content (oddly, the printed version shows amber for its salt content but green on the online version), but it is described as an “indulgent” cross between fluffy crumpets and French toast (hence the name frumpet), so it’s not intended for daily consumption. The ingredients were easy to source and the instructions were simple to follow.
It did prove a bit of a faff, however. The first thing to do was pit the cherries – amazingly, a garlic press I have had gathering dust in a drawer has a cherry pitter incorporated in its handle, I discovered, and, while this proved effective at its job it was like cherry Armageddon in my kitchen..
