Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns are traditionally served on Good Friday (the Friday before Easter) and during the Lenten season.

My mother used to always have them on Good Friday as she picked them up from the Bakery on the way back from the early morning church service in Bombay.

I walked into the most famous, over 100 year bakery, in Oulu and did a literal translation of "Hot Cross Buns" into Finnish - which is "Kumaa Risti Munkki".

The sales girl stared at me in amazement - her eyes glazed over!!

So I recited the rhyme:

"Hot Cross Buns! Hot Cross Buns!
One a penny,
Two a penny,
Hot Cross Buns!
If you have no daughters,
Pray give them to your sons!
One a penny,
Two a penny,
Hot Cross Buns!"

I think I taught her the rhyme. She may teach it to her boss

But I did not get my traditional "Hot Cross Buns"!!

I'll try again next year.