more food porn: hot cross buns

Because I am desperately avoiding trying to work on either my own book or a review of someone else's book, behold -- the recipe for the hot cross buns from Easter Sunday:

( Hot cross buns )

I am in exile in a foreign land, and thus I must make up my own mixed spice, for it is not available on the supermarket shelf here. Since I've got to go to the effort of mixing it, I am a purist and try to make it from whole spices as much as possible, although I draw the line at trying to hunt down dried whole ginger and grinding it myself. Once made it keeps well in the freezer.

( mixed spice )