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I make these once a year now...use the recipe from @michaeljamesbakes book The Tivoli Road Baker....when you bake something so rarely it’s easy to completely forget what to do...not like the bread formulas that live in my head from such obsessive use.....this recipe comes up once a year and so out comes the book and I read over the two pages of directions....which could seem intimidating....and is....but really it’s a very simple recipe once you get your bearings.... that culminates in the best tasting hot cross bun I’ve ever eaten....holiday recipes are important.....keep you on your toes....get you out of your head or rut or routine....change things up a bit.....and then hot from the oven with butter and you’re just over in the corner having a moment....where you just can’t believe the butter melts so nicely on your bun and it all tastes so spiced up and delicious with that spice infused brown sugar syrup glazed all over the top....sticky...on a soft bun....with currants and raisins and cranberries....and you know you put a whole 8 orange purée in that dough....which seems weird but it’s just not....it’s not weird at all....it’s just good
Canyon chic....wear a skirt...my mother said “you’re going out into Matilija wearing that” ....hmmm....really, every hike we ever went on as kids my mother wore a skirt....she laughed a bit....because she knows....but for a moment she’d forgotten.....I figure skirts are good to wear if you have to cross a river....wear pants you get the cuffs wet....skirts you just hike up around your hips and saunter on through...
My flower amidst wallflowers
Croissant sandwich
This is Frances on her spring break...first we take bread photos....then we take realistic Breyer horse photos....that’s the deal
I will not be baking this week...no farmer and the cook drop and no Sunday bake
Frances
Brioche
Frances
I’m not sure you could say we were anywhere today...wind made sure to wipe clean all our steps before we could even take the next....just blew us this way and that...