Today is Good Friday so it seems fitting to post the story of the traditional ceremony held every Good Friday at the pub The Widow's Son in the east End of London.
For overseas readers, hot cross buns, made of sweetened bread containing dried fruits and spices and marked on top with a cross, are a traditionally eaten, warmed and dripping with butter, on Good Friday. We have just had ours at tea, and the story of the widow's son came up in conversation.
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