Hot cross buns – fig and pecan. One theory is that the hot cross bun originates from St. Albans, in England, where, in 1361, Brother Thomas Rodcliffe, a 14th-century monk at St Albans Abbey, developed easy hot cross buns recipe no yeast similar recipe called an ‘Alban Bun’ and distributed the bun to the local poor on Good Friday. In 1592, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, the London Clerk of Markets issued a decree forbidding the sale of hot cross buns and other spiced breads, except at burials, on Good Friday, or at Christmas.
