{"id":1284,"date":"2018-03-25T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2019-02-19T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:07:36","slug":"hot-cross-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/hot-cross-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Cross Buns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom made Hot Cross Buns every Easter which was always a special treat.\u00a0 This is her recipe that she clipped from The Joy of Baking calendar in 1987.\u00a0 Over the years she made notations in the margin of the changes she made along the way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">4 cups flour<\/li>\n<li>1-8g envelope of quick rise yeast<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teas salt<\/li>\n<li>2 teas ground cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teas ground cloves<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teas ground allspice<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teas ground nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teas ground mace<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup currants or raisins<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup candied peel or zest of 2 lemons<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup water<\/li>\n<li>1 cup milk<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup butter or margarine<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1 egg yolk<\/li>\n<li>1 tbls water<\/li>\n<li>1 cup icing sugar<\/li>\n<li>1-2 tbls lemon juice or milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Measure 1 cup of flour and put is aside.<\/li>\n<li>Measure 3 cups of flour into the bowl of a stand mixer adding the sugar, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and mace, currants or raisins, candied peel or lemon zest. With the dough hook mix until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Heat the water, milk and butter or margarine until hot to the touch (125 F).\u00a0 Add to flour mixture in the bowl of the stand mixer.\u00a0 Mix to combine.\u00a0 Mix in the egg.\u00a0 Stir in enough of the reserved flour to make a soft dough that does not stick to the bowl.\u00a0 Let the mixer knead the dough for about 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Divide the dough into 18 equal pieces(about 65 g each)and shape into a smooth ball pinching at the bottom to seal.<\/li>\n<li>Place seam side down on a greased baking sheet about 2&#8243; apart.\u00a0 Cover the buns with a sheet of greased wax paper.\u00a0 Place the baking sheet over a shallow pan half filled with boiling water, cover with a tea towel and let rise 40 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Mix egg yolk with 1 tbls water and brush over surface of buns.<\/li>\n<li>Bake at 375 F for 10-12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack<\/li>\n<li>Mix icing sugar and lemon juice or milk.\u00a0 Pipe frosting in the form of a cross on each bun.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mom made Hot Cross Buns every Easter which was always a special treat.\u00a0 This is her recipe that she clipped from The Joy of Baking calendar in 1987.\u00a0 Over the years she made notations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}