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Kentish huffkin

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Preparation info
  • For

    12

    huffkins
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

  • About

Legend has it that the baker’s wife, who was in a bad mood or a ‘huff’, walked into the bakery and angrily stuck her finger in the buns that were ready to go into the oven. The baker stubbornly baked them like that and it turned out that the dimpled buns were very popular!

Ingredients

  • 15 g (½ oz) dried yeast
  • 200 ml (7

Method

Add the yeast to the lukewarm milk and stir briefly and gently to activate it. The yeast will start to foam up in clusters, which means it is ready for use. Combine the flour and sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook and put the butter or lard on top. Pour in half of the yeast mixture and start kneading. When the milk and the lard or butter are complete

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