Show easter cakes a part of Fc rites teutonic pagans bad a habit of pro the goddess caster ft ith cakes in the springtime and floii this may be traced the amazing spec bacle of both clergy and laymen dancing and playing ball in the christian churches ot england at easter time as they once did for those bittersweet concoctions concoct ions tansy cakes the pagan comestible eaten at the ancient spring festivals was made fit for the christian easter by marking it with the cross and so we have the hot cross bun paris clerks in parti of dorset and devon once earned a penny by carrying small white cakes very and from five to eight inches in diameter around to cabb house on good friday after service one ment loni that toward the end of the eighteenth century the good parishioners of bid denden in kent enjoyed the of upward of COO cakes on eister afternoon the largesse of two la dies who joined by connecting tissue at birth as were the renowned sl amese twins commemorated the fact in these cakes embellished in burlou fashion by twin female figures |