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Hot Cross Buns

3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt 3/4 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger 1 egg 1½ yeast cake Flour 1/4 cupful chopped candied citron 1½ cupful seeded raisins peel 1 cupful scalded milk 1/4 cupful lukewarm water Add Crisco, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add yeast cake dissolved in water, spices, egg well beaten, and sufficient flour to make a stiff dough. Mix well, add raisins and peel, cover, and let rise over night. In morning divide into pieces and form into neat buns; place in Criscoed pan one inch apart, let rise, brush over with milk or beaten egg, and bake in moderately hot oven twenty-five minutes. Cool, and with ornamental frosting make a cross on each bun. The cross may be made by placing strips of paste on buns before they are baked.

Sufficient for twenty buns. 1½ cupful scalded milk 1/4 cupful sugar 1/4 cupful Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt