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Friday, 22 April 2011

One ha' penny, two ha' penny . . .


Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!

One ha' penny, two ha' penny,
Hot cross buns!

If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons

One ha' penny,
Two ha' penny,
Hot Cross Buns!



Thanks to Joanna who posted this recipe on her extremely useful and informative blog at the beginning of last month. Amazingly I remembered and decided to check out the instructions this week – and a good thing I did, because you need to do some pre-planning and start the buns rolling the night before the morning you want to bake them.

And, yes! they turned out pretty good . . . they taste very good!

Happy Easter holiday weekend everyone :-) We're doing some traditional Easter things (gardening, DIY and maybe a walk to see the bluebells).

Celia
x


14 comments:

The Pea Pod said...

mmmmmm!!

petoskystone said...

love me some hot cross buns. yours look scrumptious.

From Beyond My Kitchen Window said...

They look scrumptious to me. Have a wonderful Easter weekend.

dottycookie said...

Happy Easter - everyone here loves the hen cards I bought from you :-)

Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes said...

Mmmm, yummy! Happy Easter to you and your family!

Dom at Belleau Kitchen said...

wow Celia... nice buns... (sorry, its just I had an awful lot of this since I posted my HCB recipe) happy E xxx

dinahmow said...

I like your fig plate! Happy Easter,Celia.

Frances said...

Celia, as Lent nears its end, I thank you for this connection to a great hot cross bun recipe. I have hippity hopped over to anenglishkitchen for the details.

Today on my errand rounds, I went from shop to shop in my neighborhood looking for hot cross buns that had been eluding me during all the prior weeks of Lent. Well, I finally did find some, and bought one, and got it home, toasted and buttered, and found it ... okay, nothing more. Next year, I bake my own.

In anticipation of my Lentan chocolate abstinence, I have got in house a little supply of those awful Cadbury creme eggs. Not many hours to go.

Happy Easter!

Matron said...

Happy Easter! lovely buns!

Joanna said...

Celia, thank you for kind words - they look wonderful, so glad it worked! Sorry not to have been in touch, have been in bed for 36hrs with a bug, grrr, so now I'm still not feeling great, and am very behind with Easter lunch for 18.

Happy Easter
xJoanna

Helen from Norwich said...

Hi Celia
Discovered your great blog today after buying one of your prints in Verandah in Norwich. It's for an 80th birthday present for my lovely father-in-law who loves the Suffolk countryside and wildlife, we know he will love it. Thank you.

acornmoon said...

Ooh, I could just do with a Hot Cross Bun.

Happy Easter Celia. x

Janet/Plantaliscious said...

They look scrummy - hope you got to see the bluebells in the middle of all the chores and gardening, I went to our local woods to swoon at their loveliness the other day.

Anonymous said...

one ha penny's are my favorite. Two ha penny's aren't bad though.

Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
hot cross buns.

If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
Hot Cross Buns