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  • Recipe One a penny, two a penny: stout and earl grey hot cross buns
    One a penny, two a penny: stout and earl grey hot cross buns
    Ok, I know baking hot cross buns at Easter is pretty obvious, but as this is my first year of blogging I reserve the right to do the obvious thing. Next year it will be incumbant upon me to be a bit more imaginative, but this year I will cook[...]
  • Recipe One a Penny, Two a Penny
    One a Penny, Two a Penny
    It wouldn't be Easter without some Hot Cross Buns. This recipe come from Delia's "Complete Cookery Course" and is also available online . I made a double batch and I doubled the quantity of mixed peel also. If you can buy the peel that[...]
  • Recipe One a penny, two a penny...
    One a penny, two a penny...
    I'd like to tell you that I've invented the best hot cross bun recipe ever, but that would be a terrible lie. These ones pictured are Nigella's recipe , which I first made the year we drove around Europe in a small red car with a cheese knife[...]
  • Recipe One a penny, two a penny...
    One a penny, two a penny...
    This recipe was posted in a forum Dom kicked off a few years back , and since I was finding Hot cross Bun recipes using sourdough hard to find, I thought I'd remind you of this one ........ just in case anyone was looking for a great one. [...]
  • Recipe One A Penny, Two A Penny....
    One A Penny, Two A Penny....
    Yesterday we finally took a day off from rehearsals (as it was Good Friday and the school was closed and all....).  I slept in a little, relaxed, and got some baking done.  A nice day if I do say so myself!  What did I bake you ask?[...]
  • Recipe one a penny
    one a penny
    I believe 'hot cross buns' was the first song I practiced from a lesson book on the piano, although the first song I learned via my big brothers had to have been either chopsticks or heart and soul .  Even as I sing it now, it is tainted[...]
  • Recipe Lucky Penny
    Lucky Penny
    I’m not much of a wine connoisseur.  Once in awhile I’ll come across a fabulous wine and stock up on it Drink it until someone puts  one in my hand that is even better. For the longest time I wouldn’t touch white wine.[...]
  • Recipe One - A - Penny...
    One - A - Penny...
    Like most things around the world of food blogging, I am pretty slow off the draw when it comes to the whole festive Easter-baking thing. Actually, come to think of it, our family never really did the whole Easter-baking thing - after (or during)[...]
  • Recipe Two - A - Penny...
    Two - A - Penny...
    Well, you had to know I'd do an "authentic" version of hot cross buns after all the waxing poetic I did in my last post ! Don't worry, everyone - I have no intention of writing anything nearly that long tonight . The wonderful virus known as Mr.[...]
  • Recipe for your penny
    for your penny
    I extended the giveaway for just a day. I figure it gives a few stragglers and procrastinators time to enter, although your odds seem pretty awesome already. I'll pick and post a winner tomorrow afternoon. a few thoughts...[...]