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29Bank of India Banking Officer Paper – 2017 (Practice Set)
“When my father KT Sekhar started the bakery, he
hot cross buns priced at Rs. 40 for a pack of four
had plenty of Anglo Indian friends and customers.
from tomorrow, hotels such as ITC Grand Chola and
They still form the backbone of our clientèle, and it
Hyatt Regency already have trays laden with Good
is their recipes that we largely use, whether in our
Friday and Easter goodies at their gourmet shops.
butter cakes or whole-wheat breads. Our Easter
Family tradition
eggs and bunnies made of marzipan and chocolates
Harry MacLure, editor, Anglos in the Wind, says of
are ready at least two weeks ahead of the festival.
his childhood in Tiruchi, “It was tradition at home —
For the hot cross buns, which are eggless, we use
the air used to be filled with the spiced aroma of
the best of spices blended with raisins. That flavour
hot cross buns baking, but now we just buy it off
is unmistakeable and we bake about 25,000 buns.
store shelves. We look forward to breaking the fast
They sell out within a few hours.”
with this simple delicacy and a coconut milk-rice
Ajantha Bakers sells its buns on Thursday, “so they
gruel with coconut chutney.”
keep fresh” on Good Friday, when they are
Lenten treat
traditionally eaten. “Priced at Rs. 65 for a pack of
Hot cross buns have long been a symbol of spring
five, the buns are retailed at our 14 outlets and
and fertility. According to pagan legend, oxen were
ordered in bulk by churches.”
sacrificed and their horns symbolically emblazoned
Choose your flavour
on freshly baked bread. The words ‘bun’ and ‘Easter’
In Britain, where it first originated, hot cross buns
are derived from the Anglo Saxon lexicon meaning
have been celebrated in a nursery rhyme and sold in
‘sacred ox’ and ‘Eostre’, the goddess of spring. The
supermarkets through the year.
four quadrants made by the cross on the bread are
The bar at The Bell Inn, Essex, has buns from every
said to have represented the phases of the moon.
Good Friday since 1906 suspended as buntings.
The modern version of the hot cross bun is a British
Belief is that hot cross buns hung in kitchens
invention that came with Europe opening up to
prevent fires, and the faith behind them would
trade with the East. Spices and salt started to cost
never let them go mouldy. Hot cross buns have also
less and the sweet-savoury bun with a pasty white
been mixed with unusual flavours such as Earl Grey
cross on its brown top became a Good Friday
tea, rum-soaked sultanas and potato-bread dough.
baker’s treat. The cross came to symbolise Christ’s
In Chennai, though, it is the standard recipe that is
passion and death, and the spices, the mixture with
followed. At the iconic Buhari Hotel on Anna Salai,
which his body was embalmed. So popular and
hot cross buns will be available from Thursday. The
wholesome were the buns, that they were baked
hotel that has stood here since 1951, has had an in-
through the year, and Queen Elizabeth I had to
house bakery since the 1960s. Above the roar of
issue a royal decree to stop their year-round baking,
traffic and customers tucking into plates of biryani
so that their religious symbolism wouldn’t be lost.
on a busy Friday afternoon, Nawaz Buhari,
managing director, says, “The egg-free recipe for
(11). Consider the following statements regarding
hot cross buns that we follow comes from the
the Ajantha Bakers as given in the above passage:
Vietnamese bakers who worked here when we
1. It is situated in Perambur.
started out.” While the famed McRennett will stock
2. It has been part of Anglo-Indian stronghold since
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