Hot Cross Buns - the Delia Smith recipe
1 lb flour
1 tsp sugar
1/4 pint hand hot water
1 tsp salt
2 oz cut mixed peel (might be tricky to find?
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2 oz butter, melted
2 oz warm milk
1 tbl dried yeast
1 tsp mixed allspice
3 oz currants
2 oz sugar
1 egg, beaten
glaze:
2 tbl sugar
2 tbl water
Stir tsp of sugar into the warm water, then sprinkle yeast, stir and set aside to wait for frothy foam.
Sift flour, salt and allspice into bowl and add sugar, currants and the mixed peel. Make a well and pour in yeast mixture with 2 ox milk, the egg and melted butter. Mix to a dough with hands, transfer to clean surface and knead 6 mins. Put back in bowl, cover with oiled plastic bag and put somewhere warm to rise for at least an hour. Take out, punch down and knead again for minute.
Divide into 12 buns, arrange on greased sheet, make deep cross on top of each, leave to rise again for at least 30 mins somewhere cozy and warm.
Take at425F for 13-15 mins. Watch closely as it's easy to burn top. While they're cooking, melt sugar and water over gentle heat and brush on top when they come out of husband.
VOILA. Good luck and let us know how you get on!
