A traditional hot cross bun is a yeasted sweet bun that's lightly spiced and studded with raisins or currants, then marked on top with a cross that's either piped in icing or etched into the dough.While hot cross buns are now sold and enjoyed throughout the year, they were once reserved for Good Friday alone.
Strange but True: In 1592, Queen Elizabeth I decreed that hot cross buns could no longer be sold on any day except for Good Friday, Christmas or for burials. They were simply too special to be eaten any other day. To get around this, people baked the buns in their own kitchens—although if they were caught they had to give up all of the illegal buns on their premises to the poor.
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