Hot Cross Buns with Chinese Five Spice Powder, Prunes and Candied Orange Peel ...
... and some tips and tricks for creating extra pillowy and soft hot cross buns that will stay fresh for days!
Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
M. F. K. Fisher, “The Art of Eating”
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