Spiced Hot Cross Buns
350 grams flour (spelt)
30 grams brown sugar
1 packet instant yeast
5 milliliters ground cinnamon
5 milliliters ground allspice
5 milliliters ground nutmeg
75 grams currants
75 grams vegan margarine
175 milliliters soy milk (warm)
Water
Icing
Icing sugar
Soy milk or water
Savory Crumpets
350 grams flour (spelt)
2 teaspoons oregano
½ teaspoon ground cumin
2 small dried chili pepper
300 grams vegan ham, diced
1 packet baking powder
1–2 teaspoons salt
250 milliliters soy milk
300 milliliters sparkling water
Spiced Hot Cross Buns - Put the spelt flour in a mixing bowl.
- Add in 30 grams of sugar into the flour.
- Add in the instant yeast.
- Mix them for a while.
- Add in the melted vegan margarine.
- Add in the allspice and the cinnamon. Mix
- Warm up the soy milk up to lukewarm temperature, and then add in to the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly.
- Mix and knead everything together for about 10 minutes if using hand.
- Grease a baking tin with vegan butter or oil.
- Put the kneaded dough on the greased baking tin, cover it with plastic wrap and leave it rise in warm place for about 1½ hours.
- After 1½ hours, the dough will be double in size.
- Press down the risen dough, add in the currants and knead it again for about 5 minutes.
- Take some of the dough, and form it into a small ball.
- Place them in baking pan.
- Make the cross on top of the bun, and let it rise for another 30 minutes.
- Bake them in the oven.
- After the buns are baked, let them cool down.
- Meanwhile, mix some icing sugar with a small teaspoon of soy milk.
- When the bun already cool down, fill in the cross with the icing sugar.
- Ready to be served.
Savory Crumpets - Put the spelt flour in a mixing bowl.
- Add in the soy milk. Mix.
- Add in the carbonated water. Mix
- Add in the cumin.
- Add in the oregano.
- Add in 2 small chilies.
- Mix the dough so that it will make up almost like pancakes dough.
- Add more soy milk if needed. Maybe around 100 ml.
- Add in the salt.
- Add in the diced soy roll.
- Add in half packet of baking powder.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Meanwhile, heat the frying pan with some margarine.
- When the margarine is melted, put in the mould into the pan.
- Add in the dough into the mould up to half full. Let it fry. The dough will rise a bit while frying.
- Also frying some of the dough without the mould.
- Ready to be served.