It's pleasant. This is the only yeast recipe I've every found which doesn't include salt: could that be because salt keeps the dead and evil spirits away? As well as being given to the 'soulers' who went from house to house singing the well-known song, the cakes were put outside for deceased members of the family to enjoy.

I brush the buns with a mixture of milk and sunflower oil in equal quantities before their second rising and immediately before baking, then give them five minutes at 200 deg C and fifteen minutes at 180 deg C.

This quantity of flour makes about two dozen good-sized buns.

When they come out of the oven you could brush them with a syrup made by melting a little sugar in a saucepan, as for hot cross buns and things like that, if you want them sweeter.

Valmai