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

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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
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  • troll35
    troll35 Posts: 712 Forumite
    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
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  • Bargain_Rzl
    Bargain_Rzl Posts: 6,254 Forumite
    Round and fat with sugar on the top? :D

    (am I remembering this right? bearing in mind I haven't sung this song since I was 4? :o)
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  • BusyGirl
    BusyGirl Posts: 843 Forumite
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    Bargain Rzl yes the very same!
  • piglet6
    piglet6 Posts: 1,532 Forumite
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    "Along came Piglet with a penny one day, bought a currant bun and took it away..." :whistle:

    :D

    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... :p

    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
    Bargain_Rzl Posts: 6,254 Forumite
    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 :D - 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:
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  • I was just thinking this! How about giving the kids a maths lesson as part of the deal :D - 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'sbiggrin.gif But my M&D got a nice house for < £5000 wink.gif
  • piglet6
    piglet6 Posts: 1,532 Forumite
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    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...?! :confused:

    :rolleyes::rotfl: :o

    Piglet
  • atrebor
    atrebor Posts: 118 Forumite
    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
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    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
    Bargain_Rzl Posts: 6,254 Forumite
    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.
    :)Operation Get in Shape :)
    MURPHY'S NO MORE PIES CLUB MEMBER #124
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