Ekmek Kadayifi From Crumpets

A recipe from my experimental kitchen, born out of longing for my countries beautiful sweets and a bit of luck. Ekmek kadayifi is one of the well-known very syrupy sweet in Turkish cuisine. What makes it so special are two ingredients : The bread with unknown recipe and the cream filling called kaymak. People buy this breads from specialist shops, take them home, cook and with larger ones they get 18 kg sweet. Or you can eat a slice of this in a patisserie with a turkish coffee, but usually in winter. It can sound simple as it is made from bread, but lots of Turkish people outside the country searching for the recipe of this famous bread, unfortunately nobody is succesful. Strangers can not imagine and believe a bread soaked in syrup can taste so special. But when you go Turkiye try this sweet and with your first bite you will understand what I mean..
This recipe is not the original one, but the texture inside crumpets remembered me this sweet, when I give it a try as a substitute it was so succesful I decided to post about it. Here is a my "east meet west" recipe:

Ekmek Kadayifi From Crumpets



4 *crumpets
syrup : 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 tbsp vanilin
caramel : 3 tbsp sugar

- Lay crumpets in a tray, put 3-4 tbsp of boiled water every one of them. Then cover the tray and let them soak the water.When you do this they will enlarge, so choose suitable size of tray.
- In the mean time prepare the syrup.
- Take them carefully ona thick kitchen paper with a spatula and with gently pressing take out all the excess water.
- Rinse inside a suitable size of a saucepan with water, cover the bottom with 3 tbsp sugar and caramelize it. Again with a spatula, very carefully arrange crumpets inside, their holey side down and let them soak the caramel for a few minutes when the heat is on.
- Add the boiling syrup in three steps, and in every step let crumpets soak the syrup completely. Shake the saucepan time to time to prevent them sticking. Then turn the heat off.
- Never remove them from saucepan until they are compeletely cold.
- When they are cold, take them on a plate turning holey side up, cut with a bread knife like victoria sponge cake, fill with whipped extra-thick cream, garnish with pistaschios.

* crumpets : I used extra thick, shop bought ones which containes sour dough pieces. Crumpets are different then English muffins. For more information check out here and here.

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Gectigimiz Bayram Tatlilari etkinligi icin yaptigim pek cok tatlinin icinde ekmek kadayifi denemesi de vardi. Malum burada aldigimiz pek cok urunun icindekiler kismini kontrol etmek durumundayiz. Yine boyle bir kontrol sirasinda elimdeki crumpet paketinde icinde eksi hamur tozu oldugunu okudugumda ekmek kadayifi icin kullanilabilecegine karar verdim. Meger ben bu uyarlama ile ugrasirken bir baska blog arkadasim daha ekmek kadayifi yapiyormus, isterseniz bir de Hanife' nin tarifine bakin. Ben yine de, ozellikle yurtdisindakiler icin makbule gececegini dusundugumden bu tarifi yayinlamaya karar verdim. Belki de literature yeni bir tatli eklenmis saymaliyiz, ya da baska bir isimle yayinlamaliydim, ama tatlinin ekmek kadayifini cok andiran bir yapisi ve tadi var. Tarifine gelince :

4 tane *crumpet
surup : 1,5 bard. seker, 1,5 bard.su, 1 pkt vanilya
3 kasik seker

- Crumpetler kabarip sisecekleri icin sigabilecekleri uygun buyuklukte bir bir tencere secin. Tencereye dizip her birini 3-4 kasik kaynar suyla iyice islatin, kapagini kapatip iyice yumusamalarini saglayin, sonra spatulayla dikkatlice temiz bir bezin ustune cikarip fazla sularini aldirin.

-Tencereyi kurulamadan 3 kasik sekeri serpin, altini acip karamelize edin. Crumpetleri dikkatlice, gozenekli kisim alta gelecek sekilde karamelin ustune yerlestirin, serbeti hemen eklemeyip bir sure karamelde pismesine izin verin.

- Bu arada baska bir kapta kaynamakta olan serbeti her seferinde ucte birini eklemek suretiyle yavas yavas crumpetlere yedirin, serbetini cekinceye kadar boylece kaynatin.

- Sicakken ellemeyin. Tenceresinde iyice soguduktan sonra servis tabagina gozenekli kismi uste gelecek sekilde ters cevirin, iyice cirpilip koyulastirilmis krema, kremsanti veya kaymakla servis edin.


* crumpet :
Burada cok ucuza ve kolayca ulasilabilen crumpetin eminim bizim kulturumuzde, ozellikle yoresel mutfakta bir karsiligi vardir. Ingiliz mutfaginin bu cok meshur urununun biraz sertce, ancak isitilinca yenilebilecek lastiksi bir havasi var. Tadinin bana pek hitap ettigini soyleyemeyecegim, hafif eksimsi...Maya- karbonat- sirke- sut- un-tuz ve seker iceren bu akitma benzeri hamurun bizzat denedigim bir tarifi yok maalesef, ama internette bir dolu tarif bulabilirsiniz. Eger sizin deneyip de memnun kaldiginiz bir tarifiniz varsa ve paylasirsaniz cok sevinirim.