Hot Cross Buns

[Elawin]

Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny - Hot cross buns

 

[Morning Glory]

Maybe it's just me, but every time I hear the term hot cross buns, I think of the first time I played a musical instrument, and learned to read music by.

Odd really as its such a British rhyme - one a penny, two a penny hot cross buns. - based on the street cry of hot cross bun vendors. I wonder, were the two a penny buns smaller or something...?

 

[Elawin]

Odd really as its such a British rhyme - one a penny, two a penny hot cross buns. - based on the street cry of hot cross bun vendors. I wonder, were the two a penny buns smaller or something...?

Don't know about that, but some of the hot cross buns you buy in supermarkets are quite tiny. Not like the ones in your recipe

 

[Lullabelle]

I have never acquired the taste for them although M&S do very nice ones with Kentish Apple

 

[Lullabelle]

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Mmmmmmm Hot Cross Doughnuts

Now those I could eat

 

[Elawin]

M&S do very nice ones with Kentish Apple

Sacrilege!

 

[jennyb]

There you go!

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Just out of the oven. I couldn't pipe the crosses too well (shaky hands this morning) so I used the handle of a teaspoon to spread them on. Also used warmed honey for the glaze. The gap in the front is where I had to test one Really nice and soft.

They look great!

 

[Lullabelle]

Sacrilege!