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Tea Buns

These delicious homemade plain tea buns and with raisins served with homemade jam and a nice cup of hot tea.

4.84 ratings
Prep
15 min
Cook
15 min
Makes
24
Serves
Family
This recipe is in my cookbook Traditional Newfoundland Cooking and Recipes
Traditional Newfoundland Tea Buns

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Traditional Newfoundland Tea Buns
Tea buns with raisins, cranberries,  butter and a cup of tea.

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Check out our warm teabuns with butter and jam, plus a nice cup of hot tea, this is a wonderful way to start your day. Make heart shape tea-buns for Valentine’s Day with cranberries in them, make scones shape tea buns with blueberries or just your traditional raisin Tea-buns..

Traditional Newfoundland Soda Bread
Dough with one cup of raisins.

Making tea-buns is so quick and easy to do, if you are expecting family or friends to stop by for a visit, you can whip these tea-buns up in 5 to 10 minutes. Take a few minutes to watch our short video tutorial and our recipe is posted below. Also take a minute to check out our first and second cookbooks available on this link. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook

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Traditional Newfoundland Teabuns
Homemade Teabuns

These homemade teabuns are so easy to make and tasty.

HI and welcome to our website, please make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy our recipe and video for tea-buns.

This tray of Teabuns got raisins in them and the size is a small 2″ round bun.

You also can roll them out and cut into scones or just mix it all together and take small pieces and roll into a ball and place on your cooking sheet. Anyway you shape them you will still have the same result, it will be so delicious you will love them.

Mandarin Tea Buns, baked in a 350ºF oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
Mandarin Tea Buns, baked in a 350ºF oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

This tray of tea buns got mandarins in them, I didn’t roll these out only take piece of dough off and place in the baking tray for a bigger tea bun.

The recipeTea Buns

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  1. Mix all dry ingredients into a bowl, then add pieces of cold butter and mix well together.

  2. Mix egg and milk together in another bowl and add to mixture working it in with your hand until almost into a ball.

  3. Add raisins if you are making the raisin buns if not don't add.

  4. Continue on forming into a ball then put out onto a piece of wax paper or parchment paper.

  1. Cover with a sprinkle of flour and roll into 1/4 inch thick pastry.

  2. With a 2 inch cookie cutter, cut out 24 buns, place on a greased cookie pan or square pan, or a piece of parchment paper;  place in the oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

  3. Once baking is complete, remove from oven put on a serving plate eat hot or cold with butter and homemade jam.

  4. Pre-heat your oven to 350° and bake for 15 minutes, helpful tips under bake is better then over baking them. Check after 10 minutes if they are a light golden brown pull them out, ever oven is different.

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  • Milk
  • Wheat

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    1. I make these often and use 1/3 cup sugar and sometimes two eggs. My recipe is old and is called Scottish Tea Scones. Depending on the size of the eggs, sometimes a little more flour may be required. Delicious!

      1. Thank you for leaving a message and for stopping by, I’m so glad you enjoyed our recipe and yours sounds pretty much the same. They are so tasty and easy to make for sure. 🙂 Bonita

    2. Sharon

      These were delicious but I used margarine instead of butter and I had very sticky dough . Do you use convect bake or bake?

      Thank you,
      Sharon

      1. Hi Sharon: Thank you for your message and for making our recipe, I love using butter in my tea buns and pastries because it work lovely. I’m not sure what your question is but anytime the dough is sticky just use more flour to bring it together. Have a lovely day,. 🙂 Bonita

    3. Michelle

      These are amazing!
      I made these yesterday and me and my family are in love with them.

      1. Bonita

        That is wonderful Michelle, I’m so glad you enjoyed them. They are so easy to make and delicious with a cup of tea or a meal. Thank you for leaving a message and stay safe. Bonita

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