The currant buns are made from a rich yeast dough before being flavoured with lemon peel, cinnamon or mixed spice and spread with a mix of currants, brown sugar and butter. They are then baked and ...

Defrost buns slowly in the fridge to prevent condensation from forming on their surface. To make a currant bun, it is common to allow the dough to rise once before rolling it out and spreading ...

The standard hot cross bun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a type of sweet spiced currant bun marked with a cross and traditionally eaten hot or toasted on Good Friday".

When the rhyme is familiar, substitute different children’s initials for the B, eg - Pat it and prick it and mark it with P And put it in the oven for Peter and me Five currant buns in a Baker's ...

A hacker, believed to be 15 years old, broke into the servers of Telinco, which hosts the Currant Bun service run by The Sun newspaper. E-mail addresses and passwords of about 100 subscribers were ...