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The buns of Bath

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Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

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In the majestic city of Bath, nestled in a green valley with its Roman baths and elegant wide Georgian streets and circuses, you will find two famous buns: the Sally Lunn and the Bath bun. Both buns even have their own tearoom dedicated to them.

The Sally Lunn is a soft, white brioche-like bun with a shiny golden-brown head and has been known in cookbooks since 1776. In these cookbooks it is usually stated that a tea cake without currants is a Sally Lunn bun. But there is also a difference in baking, as the tea cake is baked freely, while in The Cook’s Oracle from William Kitchiner in 1830, the Sally Lunn is baked in a shallow tin or ring so that the bun has a pale band at the bottom.

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