If Christmas starts in November when can you eat a hot cross bun?

GrannyLaine

Pedant's corner for me : we only eat them at Easter and they are home made. These were last years and oh my they were delicious

Oh they look fantastic. Now I want them even more!!!

I've made a bread and butter pudding with hot cross buns in the past. Delicious ?.

Yes, the same in Enfield. The bakers were only open for this and I was always sent to buy them - a real treat as they were only available on Good Friday. No fancy flavours - just the traditional recipe. Still warm when i got them home!

Hot cross buns are wonderful with cheese...just saying...not that I have had one yet of course ?

Anytime . I can buy them in the supermarket all year round.

Pedant's corner for me : we only eat them at Easter and they are home made. These were last years and oh my they were delicious

Its entirely up to you

Traditional hot cross buns bought Good Friday morning from the local baker are really special. I don't like the way that supermarket hot cross buns now come with all kinds of extras and flavours. Fruit buns all year round are fine, but don't call them hot cross buns, don't put a cross on them, and don't start selling them in February. Same thing with mince pies which nowadays come with extra flavours (eg cranberry) and appear on the shelves as autumn leaves start to fall. Some things should stay traditional.

What are sold as hot crossed buns are just pap with a cross on, nothing like home made spicy, fruity buns for Good Friday breakfast!

When can we is not on my list where hot cross buns are concerned More like when ever as I keep a few in my freezer ready for those sort of times.Soon defrosted then toasted.

As soon as they appear in the shops, I love them, when we were young they were only eaten on Good Friday.
Talking about traditions, who loves the little cream Easter eggs which seem to be around all year, now THEY cant be resisted!

I adore hot cross buns, and since M&S teamed up with Ocado I have a pack in every delivery (M&S luxury HCB are the best by far) so I eat them all year round. Do I care? Nope..!! ?

Hot cross buns make excellent bread and butter pudding.

With our COVID chaotic Christmas we still have a Christmas pudding left over. Perhaps Easter may be a good time to eat it.

The whole meaning of Christmas and Easter has gone and is far too commercialised for me.

Yes but it's entirely up to you whether you join in. The shops have to make money, but you don't have to buy. Many others will.

Juno56

When I was a child hot cross buns were only eaten on Good Friday. The local bakery would open early for people to come to buy, there was always a queue. These days I might buy and eat them before Easter weekend during Lent but certainly not just after Christmas.

Same. Only on Good Friday. One day only. I remember my Granny would make them from scratch, I got to do the pastry crosses. After Granny died, my mother would just nip down the bakery.

Already had some about 3 wks ago- had 3 (not altogether) left 3 for older son- ended up throwing them away??

Yes, should be Good Friday but who cares these days?

When ever they appear in the shops regardless of the time of year. I am partial to a 'warmed in my Aga' smothered in butter spicy hot cross bun any day.

Actually Christmas starts end of August before schools go back. I've seen cards etc in shops on my birthday on 31st August. Boxing Day they start with Easter and then you have everything else - Halloween, Bonfire Night, Valentines. Ridiculous - no wonder the year flies by and children want things when they keep seeing them in the shops so early. The whole meaning of Christmas and Easter has gone and is far too commercialised for me.

Pittcity

Whenever you like. I don't think any food is really seasonal any more.
I don't agree with messing with the flavours though.

Of course you can eat anything whenever you like, but I do prefer to keep things seasonal and a bit special. That’s especially so of fruit and veg, would never buy foreign strawberries or Asparagus out of season.

Well in a few weeks we'll be transforming one of our homemade, undecorated Christmas cakes into an Easter cake with marzipan chicks. It's just been fed another glug of brandy in preparation. Then it will join the Hot Cross buns for tea ?

Yes Good Friday is supposed to be the only day you eat hot cross buns and they're not the same if they have other flavourings.

On to my second packet of M&S mini ones already. never tried the 'flavoured' ones always go for the old fashioned, plain kind.

They used to be eaten on Good Friday and the bakers would open for a couple of hours when all other shops were closed for Good Friday . It is traditional to eat them on Good Friday hence the cross to remind us that Jesus died for us.

What you mean is that you don't like them.

Just because you do n't like them doesn't mean they are vile