This little girl's arms are overflowing with delecious buns. - File Preparation 20 minutes
Baking Time: 1 hour
Yield: 9 slices
1 bottle stout
1/2 tbsp. browning
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp. molasses
1/4 cup honey
1 tbsp. guava jelly
2 tbsps. soft margarine
3 cups counter flour
3 tsps. baking powder
3-4 tsps. mixed spice
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup mixed peel
1/2 cup cherries
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 160º C.
2. Warm stout on very low flame and add browning, sugar, molasses, honey, guava jelly and melted margarine. Stir until
dissolved.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and spice. Add chopped fruits to mixture.
4. Add liquid to flour mixture, stirring until properly mixed.
5. Bake in a greased loaf pan 29 cm x 12 cm x 6 cm.
6. Allow to cool, then glaze with melted margarine and honey.
Note: Strawberry preserve can be substituted for guava jelly. Raisins must be soaked before combining with the other ingredients or the baked bun will be dry.
- Recipe by Little White & Associates for Grace Kitchens
Easter Bun Cake
5 otaheite apples
6 ozs. flour
6 ozs. margarine
(not fat reduced)
3 large eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
Cinnamon to taste
Dash rum
6 ozs. sugar (mix 4 ozs.
white with 2 ozs. icing sugar)
TOPPING FOR BUN
4 ozs. icing sugar
1 otaheite apple with
cinnamon
Lime juice added to icing
sugar to cover cake
Cook for about 30 minutes
in an 8-inch tin.
METHOD
Peel core and small dice apples in a frying pan. Heat a little butter and some cinnamon. Add all apples. Cook until slightly soften. Add a dash of rum. Set aside to cool.
BUN MIXTURE METHOD
Put all ingredients in large mixing bowl and whisk together. When they are all mixed, add to the batter 4/5 of the cooked otaheite apples. Stir in. Put batter into 8 inch-cake tin. Bake for around 30 minutes until springy to touch.
TOPPING
Mix lime juice with the icing sugar. Spread over top of the cake. Use remaining apple mixture and sprinkle over top of the cake.
- Submitted by reader Freda Chance, Ocho Rios, St. Ann
Sweet Potato Easter Bun
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 45-60 minutes
Yield: 20 slices
1 cup sugar
2 tbsps. molasses
2 tsps. mixed spice
1 bottle stout
2 tbsps margarine
1 medium egg
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sweet potato
boiled (crushed)
2 tsps. baking powder
1 cup (crystallised) otaheite
apples/guavas/sweet potato
(mixed peel)
METHOD
1. Melt margarine, and beat egg.
2. Dissolve sugar, molasses and spice in stout. Add margarine and beaten egg.
3. In a bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
4. Gradually add liquid mixture to dry ingredients, beating well.
5. Add mixed peel and mix well.
6. Bake in a greased loaf pan at 160ºC for about 45-60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
7. Glaze with honey and melted margarine.
- Submitted by Miss H. Gordon, Lacovia, St. Elizabeth
