Hot Cross Buns

Ingredients

• three cups sweet milk
• one cud yeast
• one-half cup melted butter
• one cup sugar
• half a nutmeg
• salt-spoon salt
• flour enough to roll out

Method

1. 1

   Set a sponge overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, add melted butter, sugar, nutmeg, salt, and flour.

3. 3

   Knead well and set to rise for five hours.

4. 4

   Roll half an inch thick, cut into round cakes, let rise for half an hour, make a cross on each, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ot Cross Buns. — Set a sponge overnight with three cups sweet milk, one cud yeast and flour enough to make a stiff batter. In the morning add one-half cup melted butter, one cup sugar, half . a nutmeg, salt-spoon salt and flour enough to roll out

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