These look a lot more like what I think of as hot cross buns. The finished ones by you that is. I'm rubbish at enriched doughs, so no useful advice. I talk yeast pretty good, but the only kind of yeast doughs I manage well are the flour/water/salt/yeast kind. Give the yeast more to eat so things go fast and I get very confused and so does the yeast.
There basically has to be a local grocery store that does British ethnic food. I can't remember if Wegman's has spread that far north, but given state of groceries at home, that'd be the place I'd check for ethnic foods. Well, ethnic foods that aren't PA Dutch or Italian. (Here I'd go to Woodman's, the British ethnic food is between Indian and the ethnic dry goods) I actively avoid shopping at grocery stores that just stock things like La Choy soy sauce and Taco Bell, because they usually have lousy bread and are missing half the things I need and they have terrible tortillas and no rice. If they have a decentish selection of soy sauces and pasta shapes (and I'm not ready to punch people because the pasta shapes all have stupid English names on them), there's often golden syrup and Jenn's special biscuits and decent plain tea. I can't remember offhand if trader joe's usually has golden syrup but they stock some of the sorts of sugar you need for European recipes.
Thanks for the Trader Joe's tip! We have one of those near-ish by, and we're getting a car next month, so the odds of my actually going there will increase exponentially!
If you were in LA, I could tell you exactly where to go, because Surfa's is just awesome. I miss them so much. Can't swear they'd have golden syrup, but they'll have more of the right flours. And they'd sell you proper baking chocolate. There's probably other options in LA, coz it's huge. I just never bothered to look coz between Surfa's and TJ's I could fix most problems without needing to catch a bus.
If you're sticking to King Arthur flour, check their website for the protein contents. I am pretty sure their all purpose runs high protein, and their bread flour is really high. And I seem to recall that enriched dough is fussy about protein content even more than regular bread dough.
There basically has to be a local grocery store that does British ethnic food. I can't remember if Wegman's has spread that far north, but given state of groceries at home, that'd be the place I'd check for ethnic foods. Well, ethnic foods that aren't PA Dutch or Italian. (Here I'd go to Woodman's, the British ethnic food is between Indian and the ethnic dry goods) I actively avoid shopping at grocery stores that just stock things like La Choy soy sauce and Taco Bell, because they usually have lousy bread and are missing half the things I need and they have terrible tortillas and no rice. If they have a decentish selection of soy sauces and pasta shapes (and I'm not ready to punch people because the pasta shapes all have stupid English names on them), there's often golden syrup and Jenn's special biscuits and decent plain tea. I can't remember offhand if trader joe's usually has golden syrup but they stock some of the sorts of sugar you need for European recipes.
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If you were in LA, I could tell you exactly where to go, because Surfa's is just awesome. I miss them so much. Can't swear they'd have golden syrup, but they'll have more of the right flours. And they'd sell you proper baking chocolate. There's probably other options in LA, coz it's huge. I just never bothered to look coz between Surfa's and TJ's I could fix most problems without needing to catch a bus.
If you're sticking to King Arthur flour, check their website for the protein contents. I am pretty sure their all purpose runs high protein, and their bread flour is really high. And I seem to recall that enriched dough is fussy about protein content even more than regular bread dough.
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