HOT-CROSS RUNS STILL HOT FAVOURITES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 4

HOT-CROSS RUNS STILL HOT FAVOURITES

rpHE old Easter-tide custom of buying and eating spicy hotcross buns on Good Friday shows little sign of dying out in Gisborne. Bakers are planning to turn out huge quantities of buns for consumption here, quantities which to the layman seem large. There are about 17,000 people in Gisborne. One bakery alone will mass-produce 20,000 buns, and two or three others are expected to do the same! Placed side by side, all those buns would reach a long way—from the Gisborne Post Office nearly out to Wainui, in fact. One Gisborne firm will use about 10 sacks of flour, each weighing about 1601 b., for its hot-cross buns. It will be a busy time in the bakery world, what with Easter holidays and all these extra buns, and overtime will be worked by staffs. Despite labour troubles, there is little sign that the sale of hot-cross buns has had to be cut down in Gisborne, although in other centres, principally Wellington, it is reported that only about half the usual quantities of buns are to be made, bakers concentrating instead on turning out bread for the holidays. The Same Old Story

People love their Easter novelties and bakers and confectioners wish they could make everybody happier with more, but !

It’s the same old story that everyone hears every day in some place or another. Shortage of staff and difficulties of supply. Easter eggs, great big chocolate ones in coloured boxes, the little ones filled with marshmallow and the smaller ones still, chocolate right through, these are more or less unknown to many young people today. The few Easter eggs so far put out for sale have gone like hot cakes and most youngsters will probably have to be satisfied with plain hotcross buns. The elaborate little Easter trifles such as ducks with eggs, flower baskets and birds.’ nests are likely to remain merely ecstatic memories in the minds of Mum and Dad.