Does anyone have a recipe for hot cross buns? I tried one in the bread maker manual (just did the dough in the bread maker); they were nice, but more like rock cakes. I did use milk rather than water and milk powder, as we didn’t have any milk powder, but otherwise stuck to the recipe.
As it happens, I’ve just had my coffee with the next-to-last of the hot cross buns I made Saturday. I use Paul Hollywood’s recipe, and they always get compliments.
I use this as a base. It's not a hot cross bun recipe as such but very similar. I mash it up with bits of Felicity Cloake's recipe. I start by heating up the milk and infusing it with spices (saffron, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger). For the fruit, I use raisins, currants and orange peel. I add a cross on top with a flour and water paste. Less is more for this bit (it's not nice to eat if the flour paste is too thick). At the end I brush with a sugar syrup for a shiny finish.
On the subject of Lancashire cooking my mother, a Bury lass (her words), made meat and potato pie. The used leftover beef from the Sunday roast. She would buy a decent piece of beef, slice it very thin and get four meals out of the Sunday joint.
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Slater describes trying a dessert in Japan that he expected to be horrendous, but was the opposite. I’m now determined to try:
Crème caramel, topped with a ball of vanilla icecream, with a hot espresso poured over.