Hot Cross Buns

Ingredients

• one full quart of flour
• half a cupful of sugar
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one-fourth of a cupful of butter
• a generous half-pint of warm milk
• the yolks of two beaten eggs
• half a yeast cake
• half a nutmeg grated
• the whites of the two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, sugar, and salt.

2. 2

   Dissolve butter in warm milk and add to dry ingredients with egg yolks and dissolved yeast.

3. 3

   Let rise overnight.

4. 4

   Shape into buns, let rise again, cut a cross, and bake for about half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hot Cross Buns, — Sift into a large bowl one full quart of flour, half a cupful of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of salt; dissolve one-fourth of a cupful of butter in a generous half-pint of warm milk, and add to the dry ingredients, with the yolks of two beaten eggs ; add half a yeast cake dissolved in a little water, half a nutmeg grated, and the whites of the two eggs

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