Hot Cross Buns

Ingredients

• a quarter cup of butter
• four tablespoonfuls of sugar
• a pint of milk
• a yeast cake
• four eggs
• sufficient flour to make a batter

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to a cream, add sugar, then gradually add scalded and cooled milk.

2. 2

   Add dissolved yeast and sufficient flour to make a batter.

3. 3

   Beat thoroughly and let stand in a warm place for about three hours.

4. 4

   Add beaten eggs and flour to make a soft dough.

5. 5

   Knead carefully, let rise until very light, form into buns, cut in the center, brush with sugar and egg white, and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hot Cross Buns. — Beat a quarter cup of butter to a cream ; add four tablespoonfuls of sugar and then add gradually a pint of milk that has been scalded and cooled; add a yeast cake, dissolved, and sufficient flour to make a batter. Beat thoroughly. Stand in a warm place for about three hours. Then add four eggs

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