Bath bun
The bath bun is a sweet roll made from a milk-based yeast dough with crushed sugar sprinkled on top after baking. variations in ingredients include enclosing a lump of sugar in the bun or adding candied fruit peel, currants, raisins or sultanas. the change from a light, shaped bun to a heavier, often fruited or highly sugared irregular one may date from the great exhibition of 1851 when almost a million were produced and consumed in five and a half months (the "london bath bun").references to bath buns date from 1763, and jane austen wrote in a letter of "disordering my stomach with bath bunns" in 1801. the original 18th-century recipe used a brioche or rich egg and butter dough which was...
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