hot cross bacon savouries

When the corner shop didn't have any hot cross buns on Easter day, my Mother wasn't put out. 

"Let's have some hot cross bacon savouries instead!" she said, somewhat eccentrically. 

Unsurprisingly, they weren't available to purchase, so we made 'em.  Back home I made a pot of coffee while Ma did the following. If you have an oven, and a spare 7 minutes, I suggest you do the same.

• Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees, or gas equivalent. 
• Unwrap and unroll some puff pastry (bought fresh, pre-rolled); cut into 6 squares.  
• Over these squares grate some strong cheddar and lay over a rasher of bacon. I favour smoked streaky. We didn't have much bacon to hand, so cut up 4 rashers and shared this out equally.
• Bring diagonal corners of the pastry together (as in the photo), brush pastry with milk and bake for 20 minutes or so.

Enjoy with coffee, sitting in the Spring sunshine, with your parents, if you are so very lucky as to have some.