Rosie in Japan

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Get Some Hot Cross Baby This Evening...

posted by Rosie at 5:38 pm

3 Comments:

  • Totally not fair. I completely wish I had taken a hot cross bun with me on Sunday. Oh well...
    They look DELICIOUS!
    Recipe please.

    By Blogger Turning Japanese, at 9:20 pm  

  • Okay. If you twist my arm hard enough next time, I'll make em for you. I still have some fruit left over.

    HOT CROSS BUNS
    1 cup milk, 1/4 cup water - warm to blood temperature and sprinkle 1 T sugar and 2 T dried yeast. Set aside to froth.

    Cream 100g butter and 3 T brown sugar. Add a big splash of vanilla essence and lots of spices - about 3 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice etc. Add 200g - 300g dried fruit - raisins, currants, peel etc. More is more.

    Mix together the creamed mixture and the yeast mixture. Sift in 4 cups of flour. Stir and turn out dough onto a floured board. Knead the dough vigourously for 10 minutes, adding extra flour as needed to keep it from being sticky.

    Put the dough in a bowl and leave it to rise for one hour. It must be somewhere warm (on top of a microwave on low temp). Cover with a clean tea towel.

    Once the dough has risen to double, turn it out and cut into 24 pieces. Put the buns onto a greased, covered tray and rise again in a warm place for 20 minutes. Then bake the buns in a hot 220 celsius oven for 10-15 mins until the tops are golden. Once the buns are out of the oven, glaze them with brown sugar dissolved in a little boiling water.

    CROSSES: Before you bake the buns you can put crosses on them. I make a squidgy dough by sifting flour into a little canola oil, adding a little water and more flour. Make worms out of the dough and put the crosses on.

    By Blogger Rosie, at 2:29 pm  

  • You need to put up a new post, Rosie. Everytime I see this one, my stomach growls and I begin salivating!

    By Blogger J-girl, at 10:30 am  

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