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Last year, and last week as it happens, I made a batch of Hot Cross Buns using a recipe that produces a firm, rustic, bun. Taste wise they are fine. The toast well too but they are, as I have said, rustic, lacking the springiness of a shop brought bun.

I tried out a different recipe yesterday, a recipe that requires a ferment before making the dough. Two knock-backs as well, which I thought was unusual. But the result is near-as-dammit to a perfect Hot Cross Bun. It is all in the texture and these buns have that soft, springy, bread-like texture last years recipe lacked. I cut down the dried fruit a little from the stated quantity and loved the simplicity of the Golden Syrup glaze

Hot Cross Buns

They are so good I ate five yesterday.

Not all in one sitting I hasten to add. One straight out of the oven. Another a few minutes later. The third with a cup of coffee a couple of hours after. While I was making some garlic soup another and the fifth as a 'dessert' after the soup. All untoasted and unadorned.

The fact I am leaving buttery fingerprints over the keyboard attests that they are just as excellent the next day toasted.

Golden Syrup and Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns - an entry for Waiter There's Something In My... Easter Basket

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I think I'll bake some Hot Cross Buns this year as well (for the first time in my life) - and pre-ferment and knock the dough back, as I find the yeast pastries like such a treatment indeed.
However, I'll try not to be as greedy as to eat 5 (five!?!?!) in one day. Maybe three, tops..
PS Up for a pint in April??

Scribbled down by: Pille on March 30, 2007 12:51 PM

these look lovely! i definitely want to make some this year, now i am torn between yours and sam's version!

Scribbled down by: johanna on March 30, 2007 6:25 PM

They look very good. I often refer to the BBC Food website. Some recipes are off centre, but a lot of them are just fine. Usually a bit retro, but they work.

Scribbled down by: Trig on March 30, 2007 6:47 PM

Pille - hey, it was ONLY five :-) drink in April- you bet!

Johanna - just read Sam's post I think it's the same recipe, only mine look better :-)

Trig - i think this is the first one I have tried off the BBC. Does this one class as being 'retro'? Not that I really understand what you mean.

Scribbled down by: Andrew on March 30, 2007 9:24 PM

I remember the hot cross bun song!

Scribbled down by: tigerfish on March 31, 2007 2:07 AM

Mmmm. Those look very tasty. I can almost smell them from here, in all their yeasty goodness!

If I didn't have such a bad head cold, I'd make some today. But said headcold has robbed me of my appetite and my sense of smell. Maybe later in the week, though. Yum.

Scribbled down by: Jen on March 31, 2007 5:09 PM

Hey, thanks for the tip on the recipe. Your buns look faaaabulous (hehe, doesn't that sound so Sex & the City?)

I have always used Delia's recipe for hot cross buns. We can't buy them in the shops here so I have to make my own. Unfortunately Delia's turn into dwarf bread within a few hours of being baked. Hopefully this recipe will be less dwarvish and more edible.

I also didn't get to participate in the WTSIM event this month... maybe next time!

Scribbled down by: Ash on March 31, 2007 7:07 PM

Oh wow those look GORGEOUS! If I promise to come and visit again, will you promise to make some?! I have always been a sucker for hot cross buns but I have always liked mine toasted with butter (and on day's that I'm feelign stranger than usual, a smear of Marmite to balance the sweetness of the fruit. Don't even ask!)

Scribbled down by: Jeanne on April 2, 2007 3:49 PM

great minds think alike andrew.
I am glad you thought this recipe was ok too.
and funny neither of us like currants.
oh well...

Scribbled down by: sam on April 2, 2007 11:20 PM

Andrew - something wrong with the comments option on latest UK food blog list, I can't register a comment.

Scribbled down by: Trig on April 3, 2007 9:16 AM

Cheers Trig, not sure why coments were 'off' but they are back on now!

Scribbled down by: Andrew on April 3, 2007 11:02 AM

Congratulations, Andrew. Your photo was one of my favorite pics in the gallery. Beautiful colors and love the drip of the treacle.

Scribbled down by: Lynne on May 6, 2007 12:27 PM

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