What is a bathroom bun?
The Bath Bun is a large and round, sweet yeast bread traditionally made in the historic city of Bath, a hundred kilometers west of London in Britain. The bathroom is best known for being decadently sweet because bakers put sugar lump bread in the center of the bread and the top of the bun with candied fruit skin and crushed sugar. In addition to butter, flour and eggs include other sweet ingredients added to the bath buns of currants, raisins or sultans. Other versions of the bun also have almonds added as extra watering.
Bath Bun is often confused with Sally Lunn, also a delicacy. Sally Lunns are made of relatively light bread that can be eaten together with sweet or salty foods. It contributes to the ambiguity that restaurants and bakers tend to sell both buns. Sometimes buns are also confused with other fruit buns, spicy buns with hot cross or any French pastry, which also have shape. Bath Bun, however, is an English invention and consumption of Weet Tooth.
Bath is known for its natural hot springs and spa, and that is what led to the invention of bath buns. Bath Buns was reportedly invented by a doctor from the 18th century on behalf of Dr. William Oliver, who was the founder of Bath General Hospital. Patients were often attracted to the expected recovery properties of bathroom sources and Dr. Oliver reportedly developed a recipe to feed something nutritious for their patients when they drank a glass of lukewarm spa water.
The original bath recipe was required for a sweet dough made of wheat flour, sugar, yeast, eggs and butter and gulf of crushed cuminum seeds; These were cumin seeds repeatedly immersed in boiling sugar. The buns proved to be so tasty and tempting that Dr. Oliver found that his patients eat too many of them and gain weight. This led him to create an alternative, less fattening recipe Bath Oliver Biscuit.
popularity of bunsBaths survived Dr. Oliver. These buns remain one of the most popular products sold by bakeries and tea stores, not only in Bath, but also in other parts of Britain and the English -speaking world. All variations of these buns are served for tea, but it is only in tea upholstery, where they are consumed by a glass of sulfur hot spring water in the city.