Title: Hot Cross Buns I
Categories: Breadmaker
Yield: 6 Servings

1	pk	Active dry yeast
3	c	Bread flour
1/4	c	Sugar
3/4	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Milk (80 degrees)
1/2	c	Water (80 degrees)
2	tb	Lard (or butter); heaping
1		Egg (room temperature)
1		Egg Yolk (reserve the white)
1	tb	Cinnamon; heaping
1	ts	Nutmeg
1	c	Raisins and some Candied fruit if you like.

Place ingredients into pan in the order listed.

Add raisins about 10 min into the kneading or they will disappear.

Select manual or dough setting.

After the machine has completed the second rising, it will beep. In the Hitachi I cheat and take it out about 10 min befor the beep as it has reached the top of the pan. Remove the dough on a lightly floured surface, and mound it up. Then break off pieces about the size of a small orange. You should have 12 little balls. Arrange in a greased 12x9 pan.

Cover; let rise in a warm place until almost double in volume, (about 45 minutes).

Take the reserved egg white add 1 ts water to it and brush over the rolls. (Makes them nice and shiny.

Bake at 375, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool.

Take what remains of the egg white/water mixture.. Add 1/2 tea of vanilla and some confections suger till its thick. Place in a small plastic bag.. Cut the corner of the bag off and then make your white crosses on the buns.

Last week I made 4 batches of Hot cross buns. I didn't like the first three which were all recipes I had gathered from around the world. So I took my cinnamon roll recipe and converted it to make Hot Cross buns. EVERYONE agreed they were the best of the lot. Sorry the recipe is a bit late for Easter but I just made this batch on Easter Sunday and decided they were really good. Try them or just save the recipe till next year. Actually they were really good just as rolls.

Remember Lard is just an animal fat, like butter. It does give these rolls a very nice texture.

Food & Wine RT [*] Category 2, Topic 28 Message 187 Tue Apr 13, 1993 GORDON at 08:59 EDT

MM by QBTOMM and Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, GT Cookbook echo moderator at net/node 004/005

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