5 currant buns in the baker's shop....

BusyGirl

I'm doing a nursery rhyme theme this term with my class and would like to make currant buns. I've had a look through the recipes on here and cannot find one. Does anyone have an easy recipe that I could use with 4 year olds?
Thanks:D

troll35

I would go for something simple like rock buns. This is adapted from the bero cookbook and makes around 16 - 225g self raising flour, 100g marg, 100g dries fruit, 50g caster sugar, 1 egg and a little milk. Oven at 200C, 400F, gas 6. Rub marg into the flour, add sugar and dried fruit. Mix to a stiff dough with the egg and a little milk. Place rough heaps onto a baking tray and bake for 10-15 mins.
I often make cakes/buns with toddlers using the rubbing in method quite successfully, though you usually get a certain amount of flour sprinkled over the floor/table/clothes etc.

Hope this helps

Bargain_Rzl

Round and fat with sugar on the top?

(am I remembering this right? bearing in mind I haven't sung this song since I was 4? )

BusyGirl

Bargain Rzl yes the very same!

piglet6

"Along came Piglet with a penny one day, bought a currant bun and took it away..." :whistle:



Try this recipe...

Ingredients:

20g fresh yeast
55g caster sugar
200ml milk
2 beaten eggs
450g strong plain flour
½tsp salt
4tsps ground mixed spice
85g butter
110g currants
Sweetened milk (for brushing tops of buns)

Method:

Warm the milk (to “hand hot”), then add the butter to the warm milk and mix until it melts. Then add the yeast, a tbsp of sugar and the 2 eggs.

In a bowl, mix all the other ingredients. Work the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until it forms a dough (not too wet – you may not need all the liquid!).

Knead the dough for 10 minutes.

Place in a lightly oiled bowl. Cover with oiled clingfilm. Leave to rise for 1½hrs.

Pre-heat to 200oC/400oF/Gas mark 6. Turn out onto a floured board. Knead for a few minutes, then shape into small round buns.

Place on baking trays and leave to rise again, until approximately doubled in size. Brush the top with a little sweetened milk. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Bruch again with sweetened milk and bake for a further 5 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.

My instinct says that troll35's rock buns are easier (and they are yummy - we love the Be-ro book in the House of Piglet!), but 4 year olds can certainly help put all the dry ingredients into a bowl, and they can join in with the kneading and shaping - and let's face it, the parents of 4 year olds are well practised in eating and enjoying these things...

Hope these work for you...

Piglet

P.S. Showing my age here...you may need to upscale the penny price for 2008! :rotfl:

Bargain_Rzl

piglet6 wrote: »

P.S. Showing my age here...you may need to upscale the penny price for 2008! :rotfl:

I was just thinking this! How about giving the kids a maths lesson as part of the deal - a penny was already unrealistic in the very early 80's when I was that age, and with the price of flour what it is these days... :rotfl:

Fern_Merkin

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

I was just thinking this! How about giving the kids a maths lesson as part of the deal - a penny was already unrealistic in the very early 80's when I was that age, and with the price of flour what it is these days... :rotfl:

A penny wasn't that far off the mark when I was that age in the early 70's But my M&D got a nice house for < £5000

piglet6

Yep, I was born in 1973 and I think a penny was already pushing it when I was singing it at playgroup...but "along came Piglet with 50p one day..." just doesn't sound right, does it...?!

:rolleyes::rotfl:

Piglet

atrebor

Fruit scones might be ok - they can take quite alot of punishment from little fingers and are really quick?

• 50g SR flour
• 110g butter/marg
• 110g dried fruit
• 50g sugar
• ½ tsp bicarbof soda
• ½ tsp salt
• milk

Mix all the dry and then add milk to make a soft dough.

have fun

Olliebeak

When my kids were in nursery, it was rock buns that they made. Some weighing of ingredients, rubbing in of fat/flour and the rest was just stirring till it 'clumped' together. Then dollops off the spoon onto the baking sheet - no rolling out or using cutters for shaping.

Very easy if you only have around 3 or 4 kiddies at a time. Will you have anybody else to help with them that day?

Bargain_Rzl

I remember doing rock buns in the infants'. They were very easy, and delicious - but really not what I would think of as a currant bun.