have you heard of Parliamentary buns? Someone on a local blog here in SE London asked if I knew what they were. I don’t…

I once bought some “Honey Buns” in an obscure welsh bakery whilst on holiday, and they were fantastic, so ever since i’ve been looking for a recreation of the dough, and this is the closest i’ve come.

Perfectly easy to make by hand (although i did use a stick blender to get the flour and suet to break down together similar to above), and beautifully light. I used fast action dried yeast this time as that was all i had – 1 sachet worked perfectly for above quantities.

To make these into as close an approximation to my “Welsh honey bun” experienece as i could, I made the dough exactly the same as above, but then used the following for the filling:

125g unsalted butter, room temperature
100g Honey (I just used a cheap jar from the cupboard, but you could certainly pimp them up with a nice jar id imagine!)
100g light muscavado sugar
half tsp ground cinnamon
pinch of ground nutmeg

The welsh ones I remember had some interesting way of layering it all, but I went for the rolled option above..

Just cream everything together , and spread over the rectangle as above.

And for the glaze simply heated some Honey (mbe another 150g?) in a pan and spooned it over!

Simply wonderful, thanks so much for the dough recipe and idea!

I think that if you substitute the suet directly with butter it would bee too much. I suggest you leave the melted butter out of the recipe and use 625g flour and 100g grated super cold butter.
Happy Baking.
Madalene

In the first place, I do not believe in, thus, do not buy, cookery books without photos, and this website is with more than enough photos for each recipe and the process is shown so crystal clear, which is extremely considerate!

Enthralling stories accompany each recipe, which makes it so satisfying to read through the recipe; I especially enjoyed reading about agar agar, which although has been one of the commonest ingredients to me (I am Japanese), was eye-opening !!!

Can not decide which one I shall try first.

Anyway, I have quickly signed up for subscription so that I should not miss out anything. Will look forward to looking into the archives as well as new recipes as well.

I am so excited past midnight I may not be able to sleep tonight!