{"id":2797,"date":"2012-04-10T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:46:12","slug":"the-fact-files-hot-cross-buns-abound-down-under-at-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/the-fact-files-hot-cross-buns-abound-down-under-at-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fact Files: Hot cross buns abound Down Under at Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While egg hunts and deviled eggs may come to mind for Americans at Easter, Aussies and Kiwis wouldn\u2019t have had a complete Easter weekend without hot cross buns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/hot-cross-buns.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2224\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/hot-cross-buns.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Hot cross buns? No, not the nursery rhyme. We\u2019re talking about the sweet, spiced bun traditionally made with raisins and marked with an icing cross on top. The history of eating these buns on Good Friday and Easter in general dates back to Europe in the early 1700s or, according to some historians, even earlier. They\u2019re part of any family\u2019s Easter Down Under too though.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays in Australia and New Zealand, the traditional fruit buns aren\u2019t all that are found on bakery shelves. For something sweeter, a chocolate version, a mocha version or a white chocolate and cranberry version can all be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t find hot cross buns at your supermarket in the States, then why not try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taste.com.au\/recipes\/7695\/hot+cross+buns\">this recipe<\/a> we like from Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While egg hunts and deviled eggs may come to mind for Americans at Easter, Aussies and Kiwis wouldn\u2019t have had a complete Easter weekend without hot cross buns. Hot cross buns? No, not the nursery rhyme. We\u2019re talking about the sweet, spiced bun traditionally made with raisins and marked with an icing cross on top. The history of eating these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,17,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-new-zealand","category-the-fact-files"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}