Recipe - Hot Cross Buns (Bread Machine)

1 pack Active dry yeast
3 cup Bread flour
One fourth cup Sugar
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
One half cup Warm milk
One half cup Warm water
2 tablespoon (heaping) of lard or butter
1 Egg yolk; (reserve the
white)
1 tablespoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 cup Raisins and some candied
fruit.
1 teaspoon Baking Powder

Select Manual or dough setting and press go. Add the fruit about 10 or 15
minutes later or it will disappear.

When the dough is ready. Pat out into a 12x9 rectangle and then break off
into 12 peices the size of a small orange. You should have 12 little balls,
place into the greased 13x9 pan cover and let rise in a warm place until
double in volumn (about 45 min)

Take the reserved egg white and add 1 tea of water and mix well. Brush the
rolls and put into the oven and bake at 375, for 2025 minutes until light
golden brown color.

Take whats left of the egg white/water mixture and add One half tea of Vanilla
and some confectioners sugar till its thick. Place in a small plastic bag
and make your white cross's on the buns (after they have cooled)

Posted to recipeludigest by Kara9718 Kara9718@aol.com on Mar 28, 1998