The shops sell these all year now, which takes way their specialness and now they are making them with bizarre flavourings...just NO. But I do try to make them every Easter holiday as they are so much nicer homemade with good ingredients. And who does not like a toasted spiced bun with butter?
We used to sing the hot cross buns jingle when I was growing up in a largely Jewish neighborhood in Chicago, despite never having seen an actual hot cross bun nor being aware of the connection to Easter. I wonder how this particular bit of the “lore and language of school children” was transmitted to us!
Hot cross buns
The shops sell these all year now, which takes way their specialness and now they are making them with bizarre flavourings...just NO. But I do try to make them every Easter holiday as they are so much nicer homemade with good ingredients. And who does not like a toasted spiced bun with butter?
We used to sing the hot cross buns jingle when I was growing up in a largely Jewish neighborhood in Chicago, despite never having seen an actual hot cross bun nor being aware of the connection to Easter. I wonder how this particular bit of the “lore and language of school children” was transmitted to us!