Hot Cross Buns
Today we made (and ate) yummy hot cross buns to honor Good Friday/Spring Equinox, using this recipe:
1 C milk
2 T yeast
1/2 C sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/3 C butter, melted and cooled
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
4 eggs
5 C flour
1 1/3 C currants or raisins
1 egg white
Glaze
1 1/3 C confectioner's sugar
1 1/2 tsp. finely chopped lemon zest
1/2 tsp. lemon extract
1- 2 T milk
A Catholic favorite on Good Friday, Hot Cross Buns are raisin-filled yeast buns, topped with a "Cross" of lemon flavored icing. While Christians have adopted the cake with the symbolism of the cross, the cross is also symbolic of the sun wheel, which represents perfect balance at the time of the Spring Equinox.
We also colored eggs by placing small bits of colored tissue paper onto wet bolied eggs. After the paper dries and is removed, the eggs are colored with vibrant colors.
Each child also made a tissue paper butterfly to celebrate the Equinox, which was attached to the Easter baskets.
Last week we planted wheatberries into soil in our Easter baskets. We tended them all week, and today the children brought their beautiful baskets home.
Yes! All this lush, thick, green wheatgrass grew in 10 days. Such a perfect substitution for the plastic stuff, don't you think?
Happy Easter and a Blessed Equinox...
Yumyum! I'm baking orange honey muffins for Oestara ritual tomorrow:)
The real grass is gorgeous- sooo much nicer. How do you grow it? Email me!
Love, H
Posted by: daisybones | March 21, 2008 at 06:45 PM
Real grass in the baskets - perfect!! I have to remember this for next year...
Posted by: Susie | March 22, 2008 at 08:39 AM
new idea for me to use tissue paper to color eggs...bet it could tint other things--stones, fabric?
Posted by: naomi dagen bloom | March 22, 2008 at 01:40 PM