[Sca-cooks] Age of "hot cross buns"?

[James Prescott]

At 07:36 -0700 2004-03-24, Sue Clemenger wrote:
> Does anyone know how old the "traditional" hot cross buns for Easter time are? I have a suspicion that they fall into one of those "traditional but not period" categories, but could sure be wrong!

My OED gives 1733 as the earliest citation for "hot cross bun" (see 
under cross-bun).  That doesn't mean they didn't exist earlier.


Thorvald