Name: Bath Buns
Yield: Makes 8 buns
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 sticks (240 g) butter; ½ cup (120 g) castor sugar; ⅔ cup (120 g) sultanas; 2 tablespoons (30 g) granulated sugar; 1 oz (30 g) fresh yeast, dissolved in a little warm water; 1½ cups (360 g) flour; ¼ teaspoon vanilla essence; 4 egg yolks, well beaten with 3 whites, remaining white reserved

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Makes
8
buns

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

About

The original eighteenth-century recipe contained caraway comfits instead of sultanas. These are now unobtainable and, in any case, the flavour of caraway seeds is disliked by many people today. This recipe also suggests flavouring with rosewater and sherry, but this gives the delicious, buttery rich buns a rather unexpected and slightly musty flavour.

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