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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 5

HOT CROSS BUNS. Two pounds of flour, one ounce of compressed yeast, one ounce of mixed spice, three gills of milk, a quarter of a pound of butter, a quarter of a pound of caster sugar, a quarter of a pound of currants, two ounces of candied peel, two eggs. Mix half a pound of flour and the spice together. Put the yeast and a teaspoonful of caster sugar into a small basin, and mix with a wooden spoon until liquid. Make the milk lukewarm and pour it on the yeast, mixing it in smoothly with a wooden snoon. Then cover the basin and let it stand in a warm place for about half an hour. Put the rest of the flour into a large basin, rub the butter into it, add the currants, the peel cut very finelv and the sugar. When the sponge 'is ready, beat it into the flour "with the hand UT>til all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed together. Continue boating until you can juil! fh-> lump of dough out' of the basin without any .sticking to it. Cover the basin again, place it in a warm place until the " surface is covered with cracks. Have ready greased baking tms. Shape the mixture into the familiar bun forms, put th"m m the baking tins, mid bake in a quick oven for about half an hour Serve with the "Mikado" Brand of lea, and the family will he delighted. The Mikado lira ml Tea costs only Is 6d per lb, and is the cheapest good quality tea on t'je market. It brews a fine, strong I'juor. and the flavour is a rpve]nti,m Almost all grocer? sell this tea.