Easter Eggs

Oh dear, a lot of thinly veiled racism on this post!
I wonder where all the defenders of " our country ", and " our traditions" got their information.
I have worked in schools for many years, and they ALL had blackboards.
The Red Cross were NOT forbidden to have nativity scenes.
We are NOT told we cannot wear crosses.
I have never seen "Christmas" replaced by " Winter".
" Happy Holidays " is used to recognise Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Yalda, though I have rarely seen it used here.

Maybe get information from somewhere other than the Daily Mail.

A Devonshire Split - although there is no such place as Devonshire

I wonder what that artificial cream was made of? Probably sugar and lard (yuk) and I remember being sent to the local baker's with a big jam which they filled with cream and then DM used it on a trifle.

It has to be buns ( a bunfight) can't have a cupcakefight.

Yes,Maggiemaybe bread cakes if you come from the City of Culture.

We don't have cupcakes, we have buns, it's how we were brought up.

Yes you're right Maggie I was just pondering over what they called Maws buns.... I might think about re phrasing that

AND now I want one !! Badly enough to cajole Grampy into getting in the car to go and find me one !!!

Interesting story, gillybob. My mum had a similar one to tell but it had a completely different effect on her. She was at the butcher buying a joint of beef and asked how fresh it was. Butcher said: "I saw it running around this morning." My mum thought: "Sounds good to me."

Exactly the muffins I make, Jalima1108, quite tasty with butter and brambleberryjam.

Devonshire split!

Oh, that "cream cookie" looks wonderful, MawBroon. I can't for the life of me think what we call them down here, but who cares? Just send one over, will you please?

Your picture of a muffin is exactly how I understand a muffin to be bunny muncher Jalima1108

OMG I need to get some tomorrow and have them toasted with a poached egg, asparagus, ham and hollandaise sauce. HEA .... VEN

I haven't ate lamb for over 11 years thatbags I remember being in Rothbury, Northumberland with my new born (just over a week old)DGD1, pushing her around in her pram and seeing all the lambs in the field. It was March. We walked through the village and seeing the sign in the local butchers "Spring lamb" I stopped. The butcher asked if he could help me and I (naively) asked how old the spring lamb was. He pointed to the fields and said "see them, there? They'll be here in 2 weeks". I felt physically sick and have never touched lamb or sheep since.

As a child in Scotland, "cream cookies" were a sweet bun filled with double (probably artificial) cream.
My father's favourite!

I don't think lamb meat is still 'baby' by the time we eat it, nightowl. I think they've grown to almost full size by abattoir time ?

And anyway, there's nothing 'cute' about meat, whichever animal it came from. Plenty taste and nutritiousness though ? ?

I find Lindt chocolate a bit too sweet. It'll do in desperate times though.

What people now call cupcakes we always called buns. Minibags, age four, wrote 'fery keks' on a shopping list once so that kinda stuck.
Baps/rolls were barm cakes (barm being yeasty froth) except they should have a wee dimple in the top.

I love that we have so many bunny, cakey, bappy words.

....and don't even get me started on baps and tea cakes!

Very large individual cakes are often called 'muffins' but a muffin to me is something different, made with yeast:

A cookie is a largish softish biscuit, often with pieces of chocolate or stem ginger etc in it.

I thought that the definition of a bun was that it was made with yeast and Hot Cross Buns are made with yeast therefore a bun!!

It always amused me that people in the South West called Fairy Cakes 'Fairy Buns' - not they are not buns, they are cakes, they don't have yeast in them!

Guess what - I won a Cadbury's creme egg Easter Egg today in a raffle
and ate a tiny Lindt bunny

Interesting to see local differences in terminology, Granny23. I'd never heard of a cookie till the American version became well known over here. And we always had bread buns (NE England), so hot cross ones are fine by me. DH (Yorkshire) talks of bread cakes!

Well I've always had a problem with 'Hot Cross Buns' which are not buns but in reality 'cookies' (with added spice and pastry cross) of the same genre as Cream Cookies and like scones, crumpets, fruit loaf, etc. (except for the similar Bridge Rolls which are Rolls, therefore in the bread and rolls category and in Aberdeen, where a 'Cookie' is a soft, floury roll, like a bap), come under the generic term Tea Bread, are usually served with butter, sometimes jam, and go on the middle plate of the cake stand, above the sandwiches and below the cakes (and buns).

A BUN is a plainish member of the small cake family - e.g. a simple iced bun, or fruit bun, becomes a cake if it is fancied up e,g, a Fairy or Angel Cake. Buns and cakes go on the top plate of the cake stand.

Of course, like everything else, the entire nomenclature, has gone to hell in a handcart, with buns having become enormous half bun, half topping, monstrosities called Cup Cakes, although none are baked in a cup, and Cookies are now semi-soft big biscuits, although they are not twice baked - more like half baked.

Iam we have been talking about traditions on the Wales thread.Traditions ( including our own family traditions) are the thread that binds us to family and country.

You should be on the vegan thread nightowl or did you mean to be?
I think the 'too cute to eat bunnies' is just an expression ( am sure they get eaten pdq)
especially the Lindt ones.

Sorry but I just have to say this whatever the repercussions. People think Lindt chocolate bunnies are too cute to eat but are happy to eat baby lambs!
I can't get my head round that one.

Goodness me, another thread with some very irritable contributions. FWIW, I ate my toasted hot cross bus before I read the comments here. Of course, when growing up we only had hot cross buns on Good Friday. We wore our new frocks, coats and shoes to Church on Easter Sunday, said items all bought by our grannies. Not many members of my family are Church goers now but we all celebrate Easter by arranging to spend time together. I'll be cooking the traditional (in my family) lamb for lunch on Monday when my lot come round. Some of us will be climbing the local hill together on Friday, where tradition means a cross will be carried up the hill and a small service held. I'll be there because it means something to me so far as faith goes but also because it was a tradition when I was growing up for many family members to gather there. My uncle would buy me a candy floss from one of the stalls afterwards - very exciting.