Who likes hot cross buns?!?!
Answers: I do. I'm addicted right now!!! toasted with a class of milk. Why do they come out around Easter? I'm guessing there's a reason with the cross- bt what?!
i doooooo
aint ad one for ages!!
actually my mum bought sum 'hot cross bun bread' weird hey!!
Yeah, they're nice, especially with cheese
Jesus on cross on good friday a clue!
who dont
Are you for real? You don't know what the cross signifies?
I'm not religious but I know what the cross is all about....
I love them, especially if they have candied peel in the ingredients
Theya re quite ncie actually i love toasting them in the microwave or under the grill, i always pull the cross off, i don't know why just don't seem to like the cross. They come out in easter because its like st davids cross or something seems a stupid excuse to sell them rally doesn't it? they should sell them all year round.
Mmmm...yum!
Heated in the oven then smothered with butter so it melts...!
They are an Easter food like chocolate eggs. (The cross is symbolic of Jesus' cross ). But some supermarkets sell them at other times of the year. Or they sell teacakes, which are very similar but without the cross part.
Ooh I want to get some now!!
Yes i love these too Toasted with a little butter spread on top..
The practice of eating special small cakes at the time of the Spring festival seems to date back at least to the ancient Greeks, but the English custom of eating spiced buns on Good Friday was perhaps institutionalized in Tudor times, when a London bylaw was introduced forbidding the sale of such buns except on Good Friday, at Christmas, and at burials. The first intimation we have of a cross appearing on the bun, in remembrance of Christ's cross, comes in Poor Robin's Amanack (1733): Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs, with one or two a penny hot cross buns' (a version of the once familiar street-dry "One-a-penny, two-a penny, hot cross buns'). At this stage the cross was presumably simply incised with a knife, rather than piped on in pastry, as is the modern commercial practice. As yet, too, the name' of such buns was just cross buns: James Boswell recorded in his Life of Johnson (1791): 9 Apr. An. 1773 Being Good Friday I breakfasted with him and cross-buns.' The vact that they were generally sold hot, howeer, seems to have led by the early nineteenth century to the incorpordaion of hot into their name."
In England, hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday; they are marked on top with a cross, wither cut in the dough or composed of strips of pastry. The mark is of ancient origin, connectd with religious offerings of bread, which replaced earlier, less civilized offerings of blood. The Egyptians offered small round cakes, marked with a representation of the horns of an ox, to the goddess of the moon. The Greeks and Romans had similar practices and the Saxons ate buns marked with a cross in honor of the goddess of light, Eostre, whose name was transferred to Easter. According to superstition, hot cross buns and loaves baked on Good Friday never went mouldy, and were sometimes kept as charms from one year to the next. Like Chelsea buns, hot cross buns were sold in great quantities by the Chelsea Bun House; in the 18th century large numbers of people flocked to Chelsea during the Easter period expressly to visit this establishment
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I never knew that there was actually such a thing called hot crossed buns.
yeah they r so nice i have them every morning for breakfast. and they come out at easter because the cross i think
sounds good. they are just like a cinnamon fruit loaf in a bun format. it's a catholic thing going crazy over easter. presumably the cross is representative of Jesus but I don't understand what the purpose of the bun format is.
I love them.
Cross is the crucifix jesus was on... not nice to think of while eating. Helps that I'm aethiest! I love love LOVE hot cross buns! My mum always insists on putting butter on them though... bleugh..
love 'em!
hot cross buns, pancakes, Easter eggs, Christmas cake,
that's all my religious boxes ticked, guess I'm guaranteed a place in the big party upstairs now!
Me.
I buy them for the kids, then just eat them straight from the packet with nothing on them....
I do, but I so much wish that they would appear in the shops at the right time! They are Easter food. Last December I saw bunches of daffodils for sale - they belong in March. But I am 57, and when I was little the seasons ran in order, now they don't, they are all over the place. I want to see bluebells in May, not March. They always came out in the woods in May. Now primroses and snowdrops and tulips are out. I think this applies more to flowers than to food, but also just think that Christmas cards are for sale in August.
And the sheer commercialism over St Valentines Day ... And Mother's Day... and Father's Day .... And every other day now that someone can make money from.
I like them to,especially the cinnamon and apple ones and the cross must symbolize Jesus Christ on the cross.
I used to love them in the days when they put lots of mixed spice in them and they tasted different. They just taste like everyday buns nowadays though.
Maybe the cross is to do with the Crucifixion at Easter,
I love mine toasted, buttered and cream cheese spread on them.
Yuk, I don`t like the rabbit droppings in them !