Plain Buns (Rubbing-in method)

Ingredients

• 100g plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 50g Fat
• 50g Sugar
• 1/2 egg + milk (2 tablespoon of mixture)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

1. Heat up oven. (200 Degree Celsius / Gas Reg. 7)
2. Grease a patty tin cases or use paper cases for these cakes. [To prevent it from sticking to the case after baking]
3. Sift flour, salt and baking powder into a big bowl.
4. Add sugar into the sifted mixture.
5. Rub the fat with the fingertips into the flour until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. [Fat = solid soften butter]
6. Pour in the beaten egg, milk and vanilla essence.
7. Stir to a dropping consistency.
8. Fill the mixture into patty tins or paper cases [About three quarters full]
9. Bake it in the preheated oven on the middle shelf of temperature 200 Degree Celsius or Gas Reg. 7 for 5 minutes and then lower the heat to 190 Degree Celsius or Gas Reg. 6 for another 15 minutes.

Grease the paper cases with melted butter.

Weigh the ingredients
[Remember to minus off the weight of the equipment!]

Sift the flour,salt and baking powder into a big bowl.

Add fat into sifted flour mixture and rub fat with the fingertips
into the flour until it resembles breadcrumb.

Resemble breadcrumbs with added 2 tablespoon of beaten
egg and milk and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence.

Stir mixture until dropping consistency.

[Do not overstir the mixture! Careful!]

Fill mixture into the paper cases.
[For a 'smmother' look, roll the mixture into a ball first.
For a 'rougher' rock bun look, just spoon mixture into the paper cases]

Ready to eat plain bun!
[Not so plain afterall with the sweetness!
This is the smooth look (Mixture rolled into a ball]