Hot Cross Buns

by andyconniecox




One of the first food items a youthful kid to enter a childos imagination are Hot Cross Bunso, from of course, the Nursery Rhyme. A excellent favorite for Afternoon Tea, you should always have some of these helpful for when friends quit by.
Elements
450 g (one lb) of robust white flour
25 g (1 oz) of fresh new yeast
one hundred fifty ml (¼ pint) tepid milk
sixty ml (four tsp) salt
2.5 ml (½ stage tsp every of: Blended Spice, ground Cinnamon, and ground Nutmeg
50 g (two oz) Caster Sugar
50 g (two oz) Butter, melted and cooled, but not too firm
one Egg, beaten
thirty-forty five (2-three tbsp) chopped Mixed Peel
one hundred g (four oz) Currants
Shortcrust Pastry created with 50 g (2 oz) flour
For the Glaze:
sixty ml (four tbsp) Milk and Drinking water
45 ml (3 level tbsp) Caster Sugar
Approach
Sift 100g (4oz) of the Flour into a large bowl.
Blend the Yeast with the Milk and h2o Stir it into the flour and depart in a warm location for fifteen or 20 minutes, until frothy.
Sift the remaining flour, salt, spices, and sugar into a significant bowl.
Add the butter, egg, flour mixture, fruit and peel to the yeast mixture, and mix to a soft dough.
Turn on to a big floured surface area, and knead till smooth
Set into a big greased bowl, cover with an oiled polythene, and leave to rise right up until it has doubled in size.
Flip on to a floured surface and knead lightly
Divide dough into 12 pieces. Utilizing the palm of your

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