World's oldest hot cross bun

The Telegraph ^ | April 1, 2010 | staff reporter

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[Daffynition]

I’m gobsmacked!

English folklore suggests that sharing a hot cross bun would ensure friendship throughout the coming year.

ALSO IN 1821...

George IV was crowned king. One of his first acts was to increase his mistress’s allowance to [pounds sterling]10,000 a year ([pounds sterling]818,000 in modern money)

Scientist Michael Faraday faraday /far·a·day/ (F ) (far´ah-da) the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons or one equivalent weight of ions, equal to 9.649 × 104coulombs.
far·a·day
n. invented the first electric motor out of magnets, wire and a cup of mercury

John Constable painted The Hay Wain and exhibited it at the Royal Academy. It failed to find a buyer

German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first string symphony - aged 12

The Bronte sisters moved to Haworth parsonage in the Pennine moors. Charlotte, who would later write Jane Eyre, was five

Napoleon died in exile in Saint Helena of suspected arsenic poisoning

The Romantic poet John Keats died of tuberculosis aged 26, in Rome

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[Northern Yankee]

So the question begs to be asked... If you eat it, what coffee would compliment it? ; )

[Biggirl]

Great article.

I think the US President at the time, if memory is correct, was the one who now graces our $20 bills, Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory”.

[Biggirl]

....Or was it John Q. Adams?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I would calculate the value of £10,000 in 1821 to be worth something closer to £1,700,000 in today’s money, based on the value of 0.2354 of a troy ounce of gold (the AGW of a £1 sovereign that was in circulation in 1821, the year incidently, that Britain officially went on the gold standard)...

[afraidfortherepublic]

For your further edification and astonishment!

[Daffynition]

Since the bun is of English heritage ....perhaps we should be asking, “What tea?” ;)

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[Daffynition]

That's a lotta bunnage!

[Quiller]

Monroe. The American System. Era of Good Feelings. Industrial Revolution.

[Quiller]

I think I saw something like this on the line at the local Dunkin' Doughnuts.

Quick pop in the microwave freshened it right up.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you!

[Biggirl]

Thank-you.

[dr_who]

The world’s strongest pot of coffee.

[Grut]

I can’t believe nobody’s said it yet: “dwarf bread!”

[Hot Tabasco]

I have an apple in the bottom of my fridge that kinda looks like that bun...........

[BnBlFlag]

A “hot cross” bun is now probably illegal. It “reminds” some folks of the Klan don’t ya know.

[6SJ7]

The politically correct term is now “Hot X Bun”, although that sounds a bit like the name of a porn star.