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HOT-CROSS BUNS
Hot-cross Buns! Hot cross Buns!
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot-cross Buns!
Hot-cross Buns! Hot-cross Buns!
If ye have no daughters,
Give them to your sons.
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Celebrate Spring and Easter with these simple, delicious treats
that were shared on the streets of ancient Rome
and are still enjoyed today!
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Ingredients for Buns:
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1 cup warm organic
milk or soy milk
- 2 packages dried yeast
- 1/2 cup organic sugar, syrup, or honey
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons organic cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamon
- 4 free-range organic eggs
- 1/3 cup of melted organic butter
- 5 or so cups of organic flour
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1 1/2 cup organic raisins or currants
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Buy Organic Whole Wheat Pastry flour in bulk and save money on this nutritious baking ingredient for your finest pastries.
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Ingredients for Icing:
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1 cup organic powdered sugar
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2 tablespoons organic milk (or cream)
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1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
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Florida Crystals Organic powdered sugar makes a yummy icing for cup cakes, cookies and hot cross buns!
Click here to read more.
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Frontier Natural Products Coop offers a wonderful collection of organic spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and vanilla.
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Directions
- Pour warm milk into a large bowl. Sprinkle yeast over top. Let yeast bubble for 5 minutes.
- Stir in sweetener, salt, spices, 4 eggs and melted butter.
- Add flour one cup at a time until dough forms a sticky mass.
- Place dough on lightly floured board. Knead for 10 minutes.
- Sing "Hot Cross Buns" whenever you feel tired of kneading.
- Grease large bowl with vegetable oil. Put dough in bowl and turn to cover it with oil.
- Lay a damp cloth over top of bowl and place in 100° oven for an hour until dough is double in size
- Punch down the risen dough. Knead for a moment and then cut in half.
- Cut each half in half again and again until you have about 20 pieces.
- Shape nicely into round buns and place on greased baking sheets.
- Let rise in 100 degree oven for a half hour. Remove buns from oven.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake buns for 12 minutes.
While buns are cooling, make the icing. Place icing in a plastic bag. Snip off corner of bag and squeeze icing over warm buns. Make curved lines, crosses, spirals or delicious splatters.
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