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

We eat Hot Cross buns all year round!!

I like the sence of occasion! Turkey at Christmas, lamb and buns (not together ?) at Easter, strawberry in June! And that’s me

As they are readily available all year round in most supermarkets... i would say eat enjoy whenever it takes your fancy !! our grandchildren adore them on visits to our house..

MaizieD

What, exactly, is the difference between a hot cross bun and a tea cake? Apart from the cross piped on it and the packaging?

My mother used to make then on Good Friday morning, I still do most years, from the recipe she used..

I'm not very keen on anticipating 'festival food', it takes away the 'specialness' of it and makes what was an eagerly anticipated treat into a commonplace, But that's just my opinion and I really don't expect anyone to share it.

The teacakes I like (Warburton’s) are rather lighter, less dense, and not so sweet.
I did once buy some fancier ones, by that gourmet chef whose name I can’t recall at the moment, but they might as well have been hot cross buns, which I do like, but I wanted teacakes.

Tesco seem to sell them throughout the year. I buy a four pack of their de luxe version about once a month. Delicious.

Anyone remember mothering buns? When I was a child I loved them......buns with icing and hundreds and thousands on top ?. Nowhere to be seen for years !

Straight after breakfast.

Has anyone else seen the new Cadbury chocolate bars on sale now? One has tiny mini eggs in each square wrapped in a very bright yellow Easter looking wrapper.The other is labelled as hot cross bun flavoured chocolate. When i picked it up to read ingredients it contains, cinnamon and rasins which i suppose is the link to hot cross buns.

That sounds delicious !
Anyone else like a cheese and jam combination ?

Just eaten my first this morning; lightly toasted with butter ?. M&S are my favourites, always buy from there. I do think however that shops stock things far too early - by the time Christmas arrives I'm sick of seeing mince pies

I love the Tesco luxury hot cross buns, with lashings of real butter. DH and myself have one each with our mid-morning Baileys coffee

But in my childhood we only had them on good Friday too.

whenever you feel like it x I only buy them occasionally but why not ? they're only teacakes when all is said and done x when I was a child you only ever had them Good Friday , but you can find them on sale now all year x

We eat Hot Cross Buns soon as they are in the shops as we all love them !! I’m not a great one for “traditional” and would eat them, along with Christmas cake and pancakes, all year around !!

Rosina

OH was offered a Hot Cross Bun yesterday at DD's house and fell on it like a starving man. He loves them - I don't buy any as family always have them around Easter, I don't usually eat cakes (smug virtuous face) and if I had a dozen at home OH would eat them all in a flash, so he contents himself with handouts from others - poor man! I am saving his waistline as much as I can....

...... I can hear him now "no,no I don't care, save yourself, I'll eat all the buns and I don't care how much pain it's gonna cause....... Just go....I have to do this alone....get to safety my darling......leave me and the buns to our showdown...." ????

I buy them from Lidl , Aldi & Asda all year round . Prefer the Lidl ones , their really fruity , spicy & tasty , their lovely and scrumptious toasted with butter , I usually buy couple extra packs for the freezer so as don’t run out in between shopping. Why keep something so tasty just for eating once a year ?

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What, exactly, is the difference between a hot cross bun and a tea cake? Apart from the cross piped on it and the packaging?

My mother used to make then on Good Friday morning, I still do most years, from the recipe she used..

I'm not very keen on anticipating 'festival food', it takes away the 'specialness' of it and makes what was an eagerly anticipated treat into a commonplace, But that's just my opinion and I really don't expect anyone to share it.

Boxing day...... definitely boxing day....along with creme eggs......

My mum was a stickler for only eating hot cross buns on Good Friday but that was before they were available virtually all year round. I had a Blueberry Hot X Bun the other day and it was gorgeous - I could eat them all year round, a bit like mince pies!

I remember a snippet on this theme in a Barbara Pym novel (set in the 50s IIRC and, like several of her books, featuring clergymen and women church workers.)

Someone asks (very tongue in cheek) what would be the answer in the Church Times to the question, ‘Is there any liturgical objection to eating hot cross buns on Maundy Thursday?’

Answer by clergyman in a very (jokey) prim voice, ‘We know of none, but we should not care to do so ourselves.’ ?

(I love Barbara Pym!)

You can eat what you want when you want unless you are a stickler for tradition. I love sweet mince meat I make a big traybake mince pie with buttery homemade pastry all year. I am not a fan of hot cross buns or Simnel cake so I don’t eat them.

Our supermarket has them 12 months of the year. It would be a pity to waste them, so I don't!

I start pretty much as soon as they arrive in the shops. Recent experiences have taught me to live for the moment. Creme eggs on boxing day? Sure, why not.

Our local Sainsbury's moved the Christmas breads to make space for the Hot Cross Buns the day after Boxing Day!
I love them but stick to ordinary teacakes during the year and save the HCB for Easter. Did try to make them one year, but not a great success .

OH was offered a Hot Cross Bun yesterday at DD's house and fell on it like a starving man. He loves them - I don't buy any as family always have them around Easter, I don't usually eat cakes (smug virtuous face) and if I had a dozen at home OH would eat them all in a flash, so he contents himself with handouts from others - poor man! I am saving his waistline as much as I can....