Hot Cross Bun day: 
(Not my picture, but one posted to show what they used to and maybe should look like).
Hot cross buns are normally served during the Easter season, especially on Good Friday.
The white cross, baked into the bun, some cheat and use icing.
Progress.!..Hot Cross Buns purchased with covering of icing. (also this icing carefully disguising the cross. Maybe a politicallly correct approach...)
I tried toasting them....the icing was a bad idea but the buns tasted almost like I remembered from years ago..
I remember my Dad always used to go purchase hot cross buns at Easter, not unlike the ones in the top picture. We ate them cut in half, toasted them and covered in real butter that would melt on the toasted bun.
Those sort of things stick with one as special memories, and so the traditions goes on, yet the time and place dictate that nothing is quite the same as the memories one holds.
Those changes continue as what we everything we call progress impacts our daily life.
Political correctness also hits again.
The Oaks Primary School in Ipswich in the United Kingdom banned traditional hot cross buns for fear the religious symbol drawn on the top of each roll might offend some students.
Maybe people need to understand the traditions rather than changing everything in an attempt to protect individuals from their over sensitive uninformed and non accepting attitudes.
Some Easter facts ....
To Christians hot cross buns symbolise the cross that Jesus was crucified on and it is traditional to eat them on Good Friday, the anniversary of his death.
The Saxons ate buns marked with a cross and it is thought the bun represented the moon and the cross the moon's four quarters. (was a full moon yesterday).
One superstition is that hot cross buns baked on Good Friday would last a year without going mouldy.
Hardened buns have been used as a lucky charm to protect homes from fire.
Hot cross buns and Easter are also connected with seafaring superstition: sailors took hardened buns to sea to protect them from shipwreck and many fishermen will not go to sea to catch fish on Good Friday.
The Hot Cross buns that Dad got from the shops at Tattenham Corner on Epsom Downs went well with a cup of tea in the morning, just before scoffing all the Easter Eggs from the Easter bunny.
The Easter Bunny evolved from pagan times when the hare was a powerful symbol of fertility and the new life of the spring season.
The first documented use of the bunny as a symbol of Easter appears in Germany in the 1500s; although the actual matching of the holiday and the hare was probably a much earlier folk tradition.
It was also the Germans who made the first edible Easter Bunnies in the 1800s. Interesting fact but I believe bunnies in 'Bunny Stew' goes back much further, and you don't have to wait until Easter for that either. (Very nice with a beer based gravy).
The bunny's association with Easter, having originated from 16th century is rooted in German folk lore where children were promised that the Easter Hare would bring them eggs on Easter Day if they were good.
Never really bothered me about bunnys and the association with eggs and doesn't seem to have effected me too badly, but surely in todays politically correct world, maybe people should worry about that.... The implication of bunnies laying eggs and handing them over to Childern could severely damage their education. (was that subliminally why I sucked at Maths, and spelling? I really wonder now !).
So when was the last indulgance? As with all good Christians it was surely on Pancake day. (Mardi Gras), Shrove Tuesday the day before 40 day fasting in the desert, whatever you call it or whatever it means to you.
Or was the last indulgence one of many bars of chocolate consumed over the last few weeks?
Or the 20 or so small packets of chocolates I consumed whilst stuck in traffic, frustrated, travelling back from downtown Houston Thursday.
So is eating Hot Cross Buns really a traditional way to start up once again indulging in eating bad food again, to get back on track, close out that fasting from tasty sweets, candies and other foods..?
Is anything special like it used to be ? I guess the world is changing and I'm just getting older.
Everything available all the time and shops open 24/7 begin to make averything easy and bland all at the same time.
(Not my picture, but one posted to show what they used to and maybe should look like).
Hot cross buns are normally served during the Easter season, especially on Good Friday.
The white cross, baked into the bun, some cheat and use icing.
Progress.!..Hot Cross Buns purchased with covering of icing. (also this icing carefully disguising the cross. Maybe a politicallly correct approach...)
I tried toasting them....the icing was a bad idea but the buns tasted almost like I remembered from years ago..
I remember my Dad always used to go purchase hot cross buns at Easter, not unlike the ones in the top picture. We ate them cut in half, toasted them and covered in real butter that would melt on the toasted bun.
Those sort of things stick with one as special memories, and so the traditions goes on, yet the time and place dictate that nothing is quite the same as the memories one holds.
Those changes continue as what we everything we call progress impacts our daily life.
Political correctness also hits again.
The Oaks Primary School in Ipswich in the United Kingdom banned traditional hot cross buns for fear the religious symbol drawn on the top of each roll might offend some students.
Maybe people need to understand the traditions rather than changing everything in an attempt to protect individuals from their over sensitive uninformed and non accepting attitudes.
Some Easter facts ....
To Christians hot cross buns symbolise the cross that Jesus was crucified on and it is traditional to eat them on Good Friday, the anniversary of his death.
The Saxons ate buns marked with a cross and it is thought the bun represented the moon and the cross the moon's four quarters. (was a full moon yesterday).
One superstition is that hot cross buns baked on Good Friday would last a year without going mouldy.
Hardened buns have been used as a lucky charm to protect homes from fire.
Hot cross buns and Easter are also connected with seafaring superstition: sailors took hardened buns to sea to protect them from shipwreck and many fishermen will not go to sea to catch fish on Good Friday.
The Hot Cross buns that Dad got from the shops at Tattenham Corner on Epsom Downs went well with a cup of tea in the morning, just before scoffing all the Easter Eggs from the Easter bunny.
The Easter Bunny evolved from pagan times when the hare was a powerful symbol of fertility and the new life of the spring season.
The first documented use of the bunny as a symbol of Easter appears in Germany in the 1500s; although the actual matching of the holiday and the hare was probably a much earlier folk tradition.
It was also the Germans who made the first edible Easter Bunnies in the 1800s. Interesting fact but I believe bunnies in 'Bunny Stew' goes back much further, and you don't have to wait until Easter for that either. (Very nice with a beer based gravy).
The bunny's association with Easter, having originated from 16th century is rooted in German folk lore where children were promised that the Easter Hare would bring them eggs on Easter Day if they were good.
Never really bothered me about bunnys and the association with eggs and doesn't seem to have effected me too badly, but surely in todays politically correct world, maybe people should worry about that.... The implication of bunnies laying eggs and handing them over to Childern could severely damage their education. (was that subliminally why I sucked at Maths, and spelling? I really wonder now !).
So when was the last indulgance? As with all good Christians it was surely on Pancake day. (Mardi Gras), Shrove Tuesday the day before 40 day fasting in the desert, whatever you call it or whatever it means to you.
Or was the last indulgence one of many bars of chocolate consumed over the last few weeks?
Or the 20 or so small packets of chocolates I consumed whilst stuck in traffic, frustrated, travelling back from downtown Houston Thursday.
So is eating Hot Cross Buns really a traditional way to start up once again indulging in eating bad food again, to get back on track, close out that fasting from tasty sweets, candies and other foods..?
Is anything special like it used to be ? I guess the world is changing and I'm just getting older.
Everything available all the time and shops open 24/7 begin to make averything easy and bland all at the same time.
posted by texbrit at
11:39 AM
1 Comments:
I feel like there is less emphasis on the hot cross bun in recent times. We used to sing the song and eat them for about 2 weeks leading up to Easter when I was a kid. But now they're not as popular, for some reason. I *love* them toasted with butter. oh yummm.
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M, at 7:29 AM, April 16, 2006
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