Skip to content

Beta This app is in Beta Testing

Hot Cross Buns

From A laboratory manual of foods and cookery (1916).

No ratings yet

A historical recipe

A laboratory manual of foods and cookery, by Emma B Matteson and Ethel M Newlands (1916).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1 yeast

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. I c.
  2. milk f tsp.
  3. cinnamon 1 c.
  4. sugar 3 c.
  5. flour 2 tbsp.
  6. butter I egg ^ tsp.
  7. salt I c.
  8. raisins 1 yeast cake softened in J c.
  9. currants Method : Dissolve sugar, salt, and butter in the scalded milk;
  10. when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake, cinnamon, flour and egg well beaten ;
  11. when thoroughly mixed, add raisins, cover, and let rise overnight.
  12. In the morning shape in form of large biscuits, let rise, brush with beaten egg and bake 20 minutes ;
  13. cool, and make a cross on top of each with confectioners' frosting.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Pastry brush
Source not stated by archive.org
Credit

From A laboratory manual of foods and cookery (1916), printed page 194, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/laboratorymanual01matt

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.