Sift together into bowl flour, baking powder, salt, cream of tartar, spices, and sugar. Cut in butter until mixture is size of peas. Stir in fruits. Add milk all at once and quickly stir in. Turn out onto flour sprinkled board. Pat smoothly to 2 cm thickness and cut out with floured 8 cm cutter. With back of knife press a cross on top of each bun.
Mix 2 teaspoons sugar and 1.5 tsp milk. Brush top of each bun with sugar mixture. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 220ºC or dozen minutes.
Makes 10 to dozen buns.