10 апр. 2020 г. · Ancient Egyptians used small round breads topped with crosses to celebrate the gods. The cross divided the bread into four equal sections, ...

By the 18th century, hot cross buns were explicitly associated with Good Friday, a key date in the Christian calendar that commemorates the crucifixion of ...

Hot Cross Buns are inextricably linked to Easter and to Christianity. But in reality, they probably have pre-Christian origins. 'Cross Buns' were baked to ...

25 мар. 2024 г. · Hot cross buns are traditionally eaten over the Easter religious Christian holiday to symbolise the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday on the ...

27 февр. 2024 г. · The Saxons used to bake buns marked with a cross during their spring celebrations to honour Eostre, the goddess of dawn and fertility.

8 апр. 2022 г. · The cross on the buns is held to represent the Crucifixion, but there's evidence that eating buns decorated this way long predates Christianity.

15 апр. 2019 г. · Hot cross buns became commemorations of Good Friday, and across Christendom the cross came to represent the crucifixion and the spices symbolised those used to ...

28 мар. 2024 г. · Traditionally eaten on Good Friday to commemorate the Crucifixion, hot cross buns found an enemy in Elizabeth I.

15 апр. 2022 г. · The English custom of eating spiced buns on Good Friday dates back to at least Tudor times, when a London law forbade the sale of spiced buns ...