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Today's S&T is about a bakery product that we have sold to our bakery customers during Lent for years and years. The hot cross bun is a traditional food eaten after Fat Tuesday and also on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We make a sweet fondant icing and then pipe a Cross onto each and every hot cross bun. The Cross symbolizes the crucifixion of Jesus. I know from personal experience that piping the Cross on dozens and dozens of buns gives one time to reflect on the journey that Christ made in our names.
The hot cross bun's recorded history dates back to the early 1700's when town criers in Christian Europe would sing the song "Hot Cross Buns" hours before sunup during Lent to remind townspeople to feed their children a good meal, as they practiced fasting during daylight hours. A hot cross bun was considered a good source of food as it contained fruit, nuts, and the goodness of whole grains. Below is the song "Hot Cross Buns":
Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
hot cross buns.
If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
Hot Cross Buns
As a child, I used to jump rope to this song without knowing it's meaning. I found this song on Wikipedia. If you would like to see its version in entireity or read more about hot cross buns please click on the highlighted link.
Mmmmm.... I love hot cross buns. No one else in my family cares for them though, so I don't bake them any more. Now I'm hungry for one, so maybe I'll see if I can buy them singly from the bakery here. 8~)
Once again i have learned so much from visiting your blog. You always have such interesting things to share.
I used to sing that song, too, without knowing what it meant.
As soon as I saw the buns I was "singing" that jingle in my head. I'm so glad you wrote it down. I wonder what the ha' is for...
I thought is was "one a penny" etc. Got me curious now.
And I didn't know the history, so thanks. A lot of our mother goose rhymes come from Medieval Europe, and there are some gruesome ones, like "Ring Around a Rosey." (A song for the Black Plague).
They look yummy indeed! I had never head of the history behind them or knew they had a connection with Easter time. I knew the first verse of the rhyme or song though.
How sweet! Thanks for inviting me here. I wish I lived closer so I could sample your wares. Then again, I have no self-control when it comes to baked goods. Hot cross buns and Easter, ahhh. Happy Easter to you and yours!
It's good that you can focus on what the cross means for us today while you are piping :) Before Christ the cross wasn't so nice a symbol to be associated with lol.
Aaah, Hot Cross Buns! My English Mum would make delicious Hot Cross Buns and talk about Shrove Tuesday and pancakes. I considered making hot cross buns but was too busy this last Easter weekend. Of course, I could make them another time. I have fond memories of my Mom's English cooking and making hot cross buns. She made the cross on them too.
The last Easter we saw my Mom we went to a bakery and they had sold out of the hot cross buns. Very popular!
I am not a home educator, but am very proud of my daughter, jenn4him, who homeschools my three precious grandchildren. I admire you all. Thank you for being my source of inspiration.
May God Bless You,
Mama Karen
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