Looks delish. I'm too lazy to bake these today. That would involve pants & dipping into my savings account. But I will file this gem of a recipe away. 😋
Just FYI, Mrs. Brit 🦡🍄🐍 is violently opposed to, as she calls it, the Yank blasphemy of putting candied citrus peel in hot cross buns. So don’t do it!!!
Hmph. Hot cross buns aren't authentic without candied orange peel in the mix. My local Coles supermarket stocks the genuine articles. Unfortunately none of the commercial lines seems able to get the "cross" bit right.
While Cakes’ post says they were around before the Empire, my Brit wife would disagree with you about what “authentic” or “genuine” mean. Although traditions do evolve…
Don't worry, I left that out of my recipe, although I know some people do like candied citrus peel, so I left the choice of which dried fruit to use open.
I put some veggies in the oven in a baking dish, and absent-mindedly covered it with plastic lid instead of foil. The lid melted all over the veggies. D:
Guess we're making hot cross buns to go with dinner! Who needs vegetables?
I fell the same about corn in soup for some reason.
Some people may hate candied fruit peel because they've only had it in bad fruitcake. A few in a hot cross bun are much like raisins in sweetness, but come in more flavors.
I like candied fruit peel. Especially if it's chocolate-coated.
For those of us who want their large measurements converted, (without having to go to Google every time or who only have access to made for the USA measuring cups) from metric to freedom units along with a few other clarifications:
-
For the Buns:
300 ml milk (preferably full fat) = 1 and a quarter cup of milk (preferably whole milk)
500 g bread flour = 2 and 1/8 cup of bread flour
75 g sugar = 1/3 cup sugar
7 g (1 sachet)* fast-action yeast = 7 g (1 packet) of Trader Joe's, Fleischmann's Rapid Rise Yeast, etc.
200 g raisins, sultanas or mixed fruit (or 150 g of chocolate chips if you don’t like dried fruit — this will change the carbohydrates) = Slightly over 3/4 cup of raisins, golden raisins, or mixed fruit (or just under 2/3 cup of chocolate chips if you don’t like dried fruit — this will change the carbohydrates)
For the Cross
75 g all-purpose flour = Just under 1/3 cup all purpose flour
50 ml water = just under 1/4 cup water
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*I was 0 days old when I learned a new word in the English language. The word was Sachet.
Thank you Nicola from Cakes We Like for sharing this recipe and I hope to be making this soon.
But I see teaspoon seems to be the same in both countries.
As an aside, one of my pet peeves is when I see people making a recipe on Facebook and they say 2 teaspoons of whatever and they're using a regular spoon, not a measuring spoon. Two regulars spoons of salt is going to give you one hellava lot of salt.
I don't recommend using volume measurements for anyone who needs to accurately measure their carbohydrates. I use grams and give my measurements in grams because it means I can accurately calculate the carbohydrates and inject the appropriate amount of insulin.
Gotcha, and thanks for clarifying for me. I tend to get and use a bunch of recipes from sources on the internet that use American/Freedom units that I would guess use volume measurements. Except for one Pyrex glass measuring cup, the rest of my measuring cups are in freedom units, like cups down to 1/8 teaspoon . Lucky for me, I have an electric scale that can convert to metric measurements if I was to follow your recipe exactly. Which is what I tend to do when making something new for the first time.
"Disgraced former president Trump who did nothing for veterans during his administration but did call all who served "losers and suckers," claims he passed veterans legislation that was signed by President Obama in 2014. Another lie."
I'll leave you to enjoy that. I'm also told that fries are delicious when dipped in ice cream, but I'm not about to rush out and start dunking my fries in a bowl of Ben & Jerry's.
I used to enjoy dipping hot salty Wendy's fries in their Frosties, but I haven't been there in 100 years (don't know if they have Wendy's there, but I feel like you do).
Branston pickle doesn't contain raisins, nor does Piccalilli. I like my Ploughman's lunch with a nice caramelised onion chutney, but that doesn't contain any raisins either.
We had a lot of them where I started as a public defender, and (though SovCits) ended up having to attempt to represent them a LOT.
Oh my GOD you have no idea what it's like being trapped with one in your office on a very, very minor case and having to deal with their intensive nonsense. And the fucking amount of paper they give you that you HAVE to read (according to them).
It is your job to defend them anyway (though not in the way they want), yet then when you get their case dismissed they refuse to listen to the reason or even inquire, and instead gloat "I TOLD YOU!!!"
Also, it means that they'll come back and insist you do the same on their new case.
It seems I have something of a patient/understanding yet naive face, because they ALL think they're mentors to me. Some still send me their nonsense or email their weirdo health tips (ok, that's separate but an overlap--SovCit who insists that I must only consume coconut oil, seeds, avocados, and spring water).
I love watching the sov cit videos on YouTube, where they're yelling at the cops about their rights to drive without a license and screaming about just being traveling while the cops are busting their windows in. I am not a fan of the police, by any means, but these fools were next level stupid. Deeerp.
I'll have to google the term SovCits. 😅 Never heard of it. Izzit a play on Soviet Union defectors now US citizens ? Or common anarchist * communards * , whom, like the French, would prefer to park any which way they please in France REGaRdLESS of parking regulations ? I.E Do whatever the heck they please ? Which is apparently lecturing about hydration, seeds, coconut oil, and avocadoes.
The thing tfg said about how his mugshot's number one, and that Elvis's is number two...
Like there's a Mugshot Hot 100 ranking? It seems like it would be pretty static. And what would be the purpose?
There's no Elvis mugshot. Source: my mother in law was friendly with Elvis before he was famous and when he just started, and my husband worked at Graceland for a bit as a tour guide, and his aunts ran with some of the Memphis Mafia.
Is he honestly thinking he's seen an Elvis mugshot (or is he thinking of something totally different, like that picture of Johnny Cash flipping the bird)?
Also, I think it's so telling in one way about his mental state and how he's hung up in a certain time--he's SO randomly fixated on Elvis, like how he's said people think he looks like young Elvis or that he's more popular than even Elvis. I think he's come to a sticking point in his life at around 1958.
My husband's grandma has dementia and one thing that they do after visiting her is try to decern exactly what year she's stuck in from her conversation--it appears, based on how she talks about certain people and thinking some long gone people are around and some people she's never heard of/how many kids she claims to have, that it's early 1951 in her head.
He couldn’t get his catchphrase right either (I know he says an LOT of dumb shit but sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who heard him say “Elvis has left the house”)
They do seem to fall back into memories earlier and earlier. BFF's mom sang her entire Swathmore hymn the last time I was there, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know exactly who I am (I've been in her life since I was 15).
Bailey White wrote a beautiful and sad story about a woman with dementia/Alz, "Madness through Mirrors", from "Mama Makes Up Her Mind". The section with her aunt's descent into the disease shows her finally speaking sweetly to a child, a student from her teaching days, many decades before. I adore Bailey White.
Looks delish. I'm too lazy to bake these today. That would involve pants & dipping into my savings account. But I will file this gem of a recipe away. 😋
I made hot cross buns a couple months ago and decided it was too much effort for a pretty mid foodstuff.
I believe you meant to type “raisin cane”
sugar.
No to raisins. Just no.
Try my suggested substitute of chocolate chips, Cakes Jr loved it, and myself and Mr Cakes concur.
That's OK. I bet any dried fruit, chopped well enough, will make a suitable filler. Or fresh blueberries?
Just FYI, Mrs. Brit 🦡🍄🐍 is violently opposed to, as she calls it, the Yank blasphemy of putting candied citrus peel in hot cross buns. So don’t do it!!!
Hmph. Hot cross buns aren't authentic without candied orange peel in the mix. My local Coles supermarket stocks the genuine articles. Unfortunately none of the commercial lines seems able to get the "cross" bit right.
While Cakes’ post says they were around before the Empire, my Brit wife would disagree with you about what “authentic” or “genuine” mean. Although traditions do evolve…
Don't worry, I left that out of my recipe, although I know some people do like candied citrus peel, so I left the choice of which dried fruit to use open.
I put some veggies in the oven in a baking dish, and absent-mindedly covered it with plastic lid instead of foil. The lid melted all over the veggies. D:
Guess we're making hot cross buns to go with dinner! Who needs vegetables?
Candied fruit peel, usually used in fruitcakes, also works well for these. And nuts can be added.
Candied fruit peel is a bit of a divisive ingredient, it seems to be one of those things that you either love or hate.
I fell the same about corn in soup for some reason.
Some people may hate candied fruit peel because they've only had it in bad fruitcake. A few in a hot cross bun are much like raisins in sweetness, but come in more flavors.
I like candied fruit peel. Especially if it's chocolate-coated.
What is mixed spice? Or rather, what's in it, as I have never seen it in a grocery store?
My mixed spice includes cardamom, senna and weed. It adds a certain je ne sais quoi to everything I cook.
It's pretty much the same thing as your Pumpkin Spice.
For those of us who want their large measurements converted, (without having to go to Google every time or who only have access to made for the USA measuring cups) from metric to freedom units along with a few other clarifications:
-
For the Buns:
300 ml milk (preferably full fat) = 1 and a quarter cup of milk (preferably whole milk)
500 g bread flour = 2 and 1/8 cup of bread flour
75 g sugar = 1/3 cup sugar
7 g (1 sachet)* fast-action yeast = 7 g (1 packet) of Trader Joe's, Fleischmann's Rapid Rise Yeast, etc.
200 g raisins, sultanas or mixed fruit (or 150 g of chocolate chips if you don’t like dried fruit — this will change the carbohydrates) = Slightly over 3/4 cup of raisins, golden raisins, or mixed fruit (or just under 2/3 cup of chocolate chips if you don’t like dried fruit — this will change the carbohydrates)
For the Cross
75 g all-purpose flour = Just under 1/3 cup all purpose flour
50 ml water = just under 1/4 cup water
-
*I was 0 days old when I learned a new word in the English language. The word was Sachet.
Thank you Nicola from Cakes We Like for sharing this recipe and I hope to be making this soon.
But I see teaspoon seems to be the same in both countries.
As an aside, one of my pet peeves is when I see people making a recipe on Facebook and they say 2 teaspoons of whatever and they're using a regular spoon, not a measuring spoon. Two regulars spoons of salt is going to give you one hellava lot of salt.
I don't recommend using volume measurements for anyone who needs to accurately measure their carbohydrates. I use grams and give my measurements in grams because it means I can accurately calculate the carbohydrates and inject the appropriate amount of insulin.
Yep.
Weight is the best!
(Especially for baking!)
Gotcha, and thanks for clarifying for me. I tend to get and use a bunch of recipes from sources on the internet that use American/Freedom units that I would guess use volume measurements. Except for one Pyrex glass measuring cup, the rest of my measuring cups are in freedom units, like cups down to 1/8 teaspoon . Lucky for me, I have an electric scale that can convert to metric measurements if I was to follow your recipe exactly. Which is what I tend to do when making something new for the first time.
NOTHING FROM DONALD BUT LIES
"Disgraced former president Trump who did nothing for veterans during his administration but did call all who served "losers and suckers," claims he passed veterans legislation that was signed by President Obama in 2014. Another lie."
https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1764355546222657821
It's an especial pleasure of his and the cult followers to take credit for everything good for the country that the Black President did.
I think it's important to remember that because it's certainly not the last time in the news cycle he's going to try it.
hot cross buns are great with cheese. :P
I'll leave you to enjoy that. I'm also told that fries are delicious when dipped in ice cream, but I'm not about to rush out and start dunking my fries in a bowl of Ben & Jerry's.
I used to enjoy dipping hot salty Wendy's fries in their Frosties, but I haven't been there in 100 years (don't know if they have Wendy's there, but I feel like you do).
Not as far as I'm aware. We've just got Popeyes and that bloody Xtian chicken shop.
Sorry!
You're not missing anything, of course!
lol. we always had raisin bread at home and I always ate it with cheese and lunchmeat.
Raisin bread toast with cream cheese is pretty yum.
To the folks who would say "whaa?" to you, I'd assume it's not all that different from a Ploughman's lunch but as a sandwich.
Ploughman's lunch is kind of like a German "Bauernfrühstück" or farmer's breakfast.
Last time I checked there were no raisins in a ploughman's lunch.
And there is a distinct lack of pork pie in a hot cross buns.
I'd eat hot cross buns with pork pie filling in a snap.
I prefer my pork pie filling inside a hot water pastry crust.
I mean--there's that sort of chutney thing though, right? With raisins? I don't know--I could see it being good.
Branston pickle doesn't contain raisins, nor does Piccalilli. I like my Ploughman's lunch with a nice caramelised onion chutney, but that doesn't contain any raisins either.
👩🍳 😘
I should have posted this earlier. I knew that image up top reminded me of something...
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/438fdf0a9238b0bdcf0fc5cfdff6bde6985aef05089f0ede018a745d0f2e1717.jpg?w=800&h=498
Terrier-fying
[HOWLS of absolute delight!]
😆
Out! ------->
OT sorry but can someone 'splain to me why SovCidiots claim they're "nationals" and not "citizens?"
One I'm LOLing at now wants his passport card back but he says he's not a citizen so the cops are saying he doesn't get to have one :)
We had a lot of them where I started as a public defender, and (though SovCits) ended up having to attempt to represent them a LOT.
Oh my GOD you have no idea what it's like being trapped with one in your office on a very, very minor case and having to deal with their intensive nonsense. And the fucking amount of paper they give you that you HAVE to read (according to them).
It is your job to defend them anyway (though not in the way they want), yet then when you get their case dismissed they refuse to listen to the reason or even inquire, and instead gloat "I TOLD YOU!!!"
Also, it means that they'll come back and insist you do the same on their new case.
It seems I have something of a patient/understanding yet naive face, because they ALL think they're mentors to me. Some still send me their nonsense or email their weirdo health tips (ok, that's separate but an overlap--SovCit who insists that I must only consume coconut oil, seeds, avocados, and spring water).
Just looking out for your precious bodily fluids, no doubt :)
They twist and convolute semantics in a vain effort to justify their cocky confederate nonsense.
I love watching the sov cit videos on YouTube, where they're yelling at the cops about their rights to drive without a license and screaming about just being traveling while the cops are busting their windows in. I am not a fan of the police, by any means, but these fools were next level stupid. Deeerp.
I'll have to google the term SovCits. 😅 Never heard of it. Izzit a play on Soviet Union defectors now US citizens ? Or common anarchist * communards * , whom, like the French, would prefer to park any which way they please in France REGaRdLESS of parking regulations ? I.E Do whatever the heck they please ? Which is apparently lecturing about hydration, seeds, coconut oil, and avocadoes.
Sovereign citizen movement aka: chuckle-fucks incorporated. 😆
it's one of their "magic" words.
He'll need gold fringe on his passport card.
The thing tfg said about how his mugshot's number one, and that Elvis's is number two...
Like there's a Mugshot Hot 100 ranking? It seems like it would be pretty static. And what would be the purpose?
There's no Elvis mugshot. Source: my mother in law was friendly with Elvis before he was famous and when he just started, and my husband worked at Graceland for a bit as a tour guide, and his aunts ran with some of the Memphis Mafia.
Is he honestly thinking he's seen an Elvis mugshot (or is he thinking of something totally different, like that picture of Johnny Cash flipping the bird)?
Also, I think it's so telling in one way about his mental state and how he's hung up in a certain time--he's SO randomly fixated on Elvis, like how he's said people think he looks like young Elvis or that he's more popular than even Elvis. I think he's come to a sticking point in his life at around 1958.
My husband's grandma has dementia and one thing that they do after visiting her is try to decern exactly what year she's stuck in from her conversation--it appears, based on how she talks about certain people and thinking some long gone people are around and some people she's never heard of/how many kids she claims to have, that it's early 1951 in her head.
FBI's Ten Most Wanted......
He couldn’t get his catchphrase right either (I know he says an LOT of dumb shit but sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who heard him say “Elvis has left the house”)
They do seem to fall back into memories earlier and earlier. BFF's mom sang her entire Swathmore hymn the last time I was there, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know exactly who I am (I've been in her life since I was 15).
Bailey White wrote a beautiful and sad story about a woman with dementia/Alz, "Madness through Mirrors", from "Mama Makes Up Her Mind". The section with her aunt's descent into the disease shows her finally speaking sweetly to a child, a student from her teaching days, many decades before. I adore Bailey White.
I love her :)
Maybe they are thinking of his U.S. Army photo.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a60AAOSwmrlU0V-I/s-l1600.jpg
Well I wasn’t, but I am now. Rawr.
Oh god. I love hot cross buns slathered with butter but my fav ever are English crumpets.
Guess I'll be seeing you next month then. 😆
Absolutely. I will be taking pills so that I can eat them as they are not GF