Ingredients
• 160g potato flour
• 80g plain white flour
• 170ml warm milk
• 100-110ml warm water
• 6g dried yeast
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 2 large gammon steaks (450g total weight)
• 2 tsp mustard
• 2 tsp maple syrup
• 4 eggs
• 250g cherry tomatoes, on the vine
• sunflower or vegetable oil, for all the frying
Preparation method
- Warm the milk gently.
- Measure out the flours and yeast into a bowl. Pour the milk and water over, and whisk until smooth. It will be the consistency of single cream.
- Cover with cling film and leave to rest at room temperature for 1-2 hours, until lots of bubbles have formed on the surface.
- In the meantime, preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the tomatoes (on the vine) on a lined baking tray, sprinkle with sea salt and place in the oven for 10 minutes, until they have burst. Leave to one side. Turn the oven down to 160°C.
- Whisk the salt and the baking powder into the batter.
- Heat a heavy frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add two tablespoons of oil to heat.
- Take an oiled 9cm/3.5in pastry ring (you will need 2-4) and pour a ladle of batter into it.
- After five minutes or so, when the surface is just set and bubbles are formed, remove the ring and flip it over.
- Cook the other side for 2-3 minutes, until golden.
- Repeat with the remaining batter in batches. This should make 4-5. (Sometimes the first one is a dud). Set aside on a wire rack.
- Add the vegetable oil to a large frying pan. Heat until medium-hot. Add the gammon steaks and cook for 1-2 minutes on the first side. Flip over and fry for one minute. Spread the tops with mustard and then maple syrup. Slide out of the pan.
- Use an 8cm/3.2in cookie cutter to cut out four pieces from the gammon steaks. Keep warm on a baking tray in the oven while you make the eggs.
- Oil the pastry rings once again. Heat more oil in the pan, crack the eggs into the rings, and fry the eggs inside the rings for 2-3 minutes, until the white has set.
- To assemble, lay the potato crumpet on the plate, add the gammon slice and the fried egg, and drape the vine tomatoes over the top.