Crump"et (krŭmp"&ebreve;t),
n. [Prob. from
W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or
fritter.] A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
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 place in the nut has impregnated the flower with a leaven; this,
without any further addition, expands the dough when in the oven,
and the cake produced is very similar to a crumpet , both in
appearance and flavor.
The village in which I first tasted this preparation of the
sago- nut was a tolerable sample of such places, on the borders of
the Veddah country. The population consisted of one old man and
It was a hot midsummer evening. Limehouse Road was deserted save
by dust and a few rattling butchers' carts, and the bell of the
muffin and crumpet man. A commodious mansion, which stood on the
right of the road as you enter Pultneyville, surrounded by stately
poplars and a high fence surmounted by a chevaux de frise of broken
glass, looked to the passing and footsore pedestrian like the
genius of seclusion and solitude. A bill announcing in the usual
terms that the house was to let, hung from the bell at the
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