Hot Cross Buns
A dish that leans on scalded milk and sugar.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- 1 cup scalded milk
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ yeast cake dissolved in
- ¼ cup lukewarm water
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 cups flour
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup raisins stoned and quartered, or ¼ cup currants
Make it lactose-friendly
- 1 cup scalded milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
- 2 tablespoons butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
Steps
- Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake, cinnamon, flour, and egg well beaten; when thoroughly mixed, add raisins, cover, and let rise over night. In morning, shape in forms of large biscuits, place in pan one inch apart, let rise, brush over with beaten egg, and bake twenty minutes; cool, and with ornamental frosting make a cross on top of each bun.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 504 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 13.5 g |
| Fat | 9.9 g |
| Carbs | 89.1 g |
| Fiber | 3.1 g |
| Sodium | 343 mg |
Source
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States