Comments on: Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:09:24 +0000

Oh, my goodness! Hot petrified cross bun!

By: Peter Fagg

Peter Fagg — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:04:38 +0000

mmmmmm...a hot cross bun with butter and strawberry jam on top. Love 'em! But... do you fancy eating a hot cross bun baked in 1821? take a nosey at this link

By: How Mormons Celebrate Easter | Mormon Women: Who We Are

How Mormons Celebrate Easter | Mormon Women: Who We Are — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:59:08 +0000

[...] Easter season (usually Easter Sunday) often means family meals; each family will have its own food traditions. Some eat fish and honeycomb. Others do a ham dinner. Some have breakfast traditions. Some families may eat foods such as hot cross buns (one family’s recipe is here). [...]

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:14:30 +0000

You’ve brought back great childhood memories of Mom putting a pan of hot cross buns in the oven to warm. I now have to drive 25 miles to get the best hot cross buns I have ever tasted. Last year I tried to find a recipe so I could make my own. No luck.

Thanks again, Ardis, for a wonderful post. I didn’t know the buns were an English creation, but this makes sense. In the last few years the buns have disappeared from my local neighborhood grocery stores. I can buy exotic Indian, Vietnamese, Italian or Mexican foods, but no hot cross buns.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:41:11 +0000

The locals here (in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn) also have no idea what Hot Cross Buns are. Years ago, when I asked the teenaged girl behind the counter of the local bakery “Do you have Hot Cross Buns?” all I got was an embarrassed smirk.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:41:03 +0000

Have been eating Hot Cross Bins for weeks now, sooooo yummy! Here we add mixed spice and nutmeg into the mix, and never ever have I seen buns with chocolate of any description, but that could be an interesting experiment. Our crosses are made with plain flour and water mixed then piped on top, and the glaze can also be made with warmed golden syrup.We eat them, split, with butter (no forks mandatory!)

When I moved to Scotland 20-something years ago, the locals had no idea what Hot Cross Buns were, or their Good Friday significance, so either it was a specifically English custom or the peeps in Ayrshire were a little isolated!.