Before I started writing this I was wondering why I made hot cross buns. Obviously Easter played a huge part in it but there was another reason, a lot of involved cooking I do is always destined for the blog and the blog played a big part in my decision to make these. Easter aside the reason I wanted to make these was so I had something sweet to photograph on top of the lovely antique cake stand my girlfriend got for her birthday recently. Alas it's only just dawned on me that that was the reason and so the photographs are without the lovely cake stand.
Looking around at recipes they went from the very plain to the quite rich looking. I settled upon one from the richer end of the spectrum - from Nigella's Feast book. This differed from most by using a combination of milk and melted butter for the liquid along with the addition of some cardamom and ginger.
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Making the assumption
that folk visit this site, have a read and then come back again to read newer posts you may have
noticed that I’ve not written about any food from England. This is for the simple fact that I don’t
really cook a lot of recipes from England. I’ll always buy British produce, if the option is available, but the food
will tend to end up in a foreign dish. It’s not that I have anything against the traditional food of this
country, it’s just a love of variety and with near 200 countries’ worth of
recipes to choose from English dishes aren’t going to pop up too
frequently. Toad in the hole gets
cooked occasionally and I adore a fried breakfast but outside of that we’re
talking the occasional stew or roast really. Maybe I should up the amount of local recipes I cook and stick them on
here, for the moment though I shall break from the norm once and cook something from
these shores.
Every now and again I hear of Staffordshire Oatcakes
and every time I do I think ‘I must give those a go’. I never do though. Last
week I was reading this post on the UK Food Blogger’s Association and it was
enough to make me finally give them a go, I imagine this author’s success was due to
this being the first time I’d actually seen a photo of them.
I grabbed a recipe
from a lady called Rose and stocked up on the ingredients ready for the
weekend.
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