The return of the Alban Bun | Herts Advertiser
The legendary Alban Bun. - Credit: St Albans Cathedral The Alban Bun is back for another year - baked in-house at St Albans Cathedral's Abbot's Kitchen for the first time in over a decade. The Alban Bun, the precursor to the famous hot cross bun, is believed to have originated in St Albans from an original recipe devised by Brother Thomas Rocliffe, a 14th century monk at the abbey. Although the original source is still being researched, an article in the Herts Advertiser of 1862 reports it as follows: "It is said that in a copy of Ye Booke of Saint Albans it was reported that: 'In the ye...
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