I'll start with history, or rather prehistory... I Love English, teach it and teach my four year old son. And here it is in the study faced a song about these muffins. Hot cross buns are so popular in the UK that song before singing street vendors scones, went to various children's collections. It was very interesting, how to cook them (well, where do without it). Here and began to look for a recipe. Found the recipe and it turned out that the buns still with an interesting story. But let's start to learn how to cook them)))

Let's start with the preparation of sourdough. Lightly beat the egg, brown sugar dissolved in warm water, add to the egg, then the yeast and flour. To wait 10 minutes until the yeast rises.

Then mix all the ingredients for the dough...

... and knead it very thoroughly for 5 minutes. A bit of filler, classic option is the cranberries + raisins.

Cover with plastic wrap. Leave at least an hour, until the volume increases by half.

The surface is slightly to priporoshit flour and knead thoroughly. Divide the dough into 12 pieces, shape rolls, cover with foil, again to give up.

With a sharp knife to make the rolls crosswise incisions.

Now here is the trick how to keep the cut light? For this you need to prepare from 2 tbsp flour and water dough, as for pancakes. And with a package with cut corner to apply the coating in a cross notch. That's the whole secret.

Bake at 200 degrees for 8-12 minutes. Hot buns lubricate the liquid honey or the classic, using Golden syrup - sugar syrup. For the recipe and translation thanks Shalfeya.