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This year's attempt at hot cross buns
Slashing the top with a knife proved not all that successful.
According to Elizabeth David, spiced buns became popular in England in Tudor times. A decree of 1592 directs that no bakers, &c., at any times hereafter make, utter, or sell by retail ... unto any of the Queen's subjects any spice cakes, buns, biscuits, or other spice bread ... except it be at funerals, or on Friday before Easter, or at Christmas, upon pain of forfeiture of all such spiced bread to the poor."
This year's attempt at hot cross buns
Slashing the top with a knife proved not all that successful.
According to Elizabeth David, spiced buns became popular in England in Tudor times. A decree of 1592 directs that no bakers, &c., at any times hereafter make, utter, or sell by retail ... unto any of the Queen's subjects any spice cakes, buns, biscuits, or other spice bread ... except it be at funerals, or on Friday before Easter, or at Christmas, upon pain of forfeiture of all such spiced bread to the poor."