Hot Cross Buns

Name: Hot Cross Buns
Yield: Makes 12 Buns
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz/¼ cup) plain (all-purpose) flour; 1 teaspoon powdered gelatine; ½ tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; 1 tablespoon dried yeast or 30 g (1 oz) fresh yeast; 2 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz/4 cups) white strong flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 40 g (1½ oz) butter; 150 g (5½ oz/1¼ cups) sultanas; ¼ teaspoon caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes
12
Buns

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Traditionally eaten on Good Friday, hot cross buns are small yeast buns flavoured with spices and raisins or sultanas. The custom of eating the buns on Good Friday was popularised in Tudor England when a law was introduced that forbade the sale of the spiced buns except on Good Friday, Christmas and at burials.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon dried yeast or 30 g (1 oz) fresh yeast

Europe
United Kingdom
Christmas
Good Friday
Bread

Method

In a small bowl, put the yeast, 2 teaspoons of the flour, 1 teaspoon of the sugar and 125

Ingredients

Method

Photos