Hot Cross Buns

Today is Good Friday and it's tradition to eat a Hot Cross Bun today. The buns contain spices and currants and the cross on the top represents the cross used in the Crucifixion of Christ. The first recorded use of the term Hot Cross Bun dates from 1733, though they are thought to have been made long before this. The Hot Cross Bun even has its own song -

"Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
hot cross buns.

If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons,
one ha' penny,
two ha' penny,
Hot Cross Buns"

The buns in the photo are from my local Supermarket (though they still taste good!) but I've got a treat in store for me at work today. A woman I work with is bringing in homemade Hot Cross Buns! Yummy!