Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
See how to make classic Easter yeast buns with your bread machine. Stir and heat until very warm but not boiling. The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Prepare Dough:
- Make ready 250 g (2 cups) strong flour/white bread flour
- Make ready 250 g (2 cups) plain flour/all-purpose flour
- Get 1 tsp mixed spice
- Take 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm milk
- Take 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
- Make ready 7 g (2 1/4 tsp) active dry yeast
- Make ready 10 g salt
- Take 50 g sugar (3 heaping Tbsp)
- Take 1 egg, beaten
- Prepare 50 g unsalted butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
- Take 100 g dried mixed fruit or raisins (a small bowlful)
- Prepare Crosses on top:
- Prepare some plain flour
- Take water
- Take Glaze:
- Prepare 2 Tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
- Prepare 2 Tbsp water
Less milk, more butter and more eggs produces a slightly denser roll (but not heavy!) compared to the dinner rolls. Hot Cross Buns were originally a Saxon tradition which became an Easter tradition to celebrate Good Friday. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. One a penny, two a penny.
Instructions to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Mix all the dough ingredients in a large bowl until it forms a ball of dough you can knead. Remove to a board sprinkled with flour and knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, soft and elastic.
- Form the dough into a ball and put back into the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise until about doubled in size (usually 1 hour but if it's chilly it could take 2 hours).
- Once the dough is about double in size, bring it back to the floured board and knead it briefly to push out the air. Divide it into 8 equal pieces.
- With each piece of dough, form round buns. Place the 8 buns on a floured or lined baking tray (leave a little space in between) and cover lightly with a tea towel. Let rise for about another 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
- To make the crosses, mix together a small amount of flour with a little water until it forms a thick paste. Use the paste to make crosses across the top of each bun.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until the hot cross buns are golden. While the buns are baking, mix together the marmalade/apricot jam and water, then brush it over the buns when they come out of the oven (still hot!).
- Let the hot cross buns cool on a wire rack, and enjoy for Easter!
Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good Friday. Enriched with dairy that wasn't permitted in the Lenten diet, filled with fruit and spices, and marked with the sign of the cross, they're so pleasurable to eat that Queen Elizabeth I felt the need for a rule that the buns could only be sold on two days. When the buns have risen, remove the polythene bag and the greaseproof paper. Spoon the flour mixture into a piping bag (or a plastic food bag with a corner snipped away) and pipe a cross on each bun. Mix the rum or apple juice with the dried fruit and raisins, cover with plastic wrap, and microwave briefly, just till the fruit and liquid are very warm, and the plastic starts to "shrink wrap" itself over the top of the bowl.
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