currant bun
Sweet spotted bread
A currant bun is a sweet roll studded with dried currants, often glazed and sometimes spiced.
The hot cross bun eaten at Easter is a variety.
In Cockney rhyming slang, currant bun means sun: Beautiful currant bun today.
Small sweet bun
- sconeSmall crumbly teatime bread
- crumpetSpongy griddle bread
- afternoon teaLight meal around four
- tea roomCafé serving hot brews
Victoria sponge · Bakewell tart · Battenberg · rock cake · teatime · elevenses · high tea
Dried grape snack
- sultanasPale dried grapes
- dried fruitDehydrated edible plant matter
- candied peelSugar-preserved citrus skin
- sugarCrystalline carbohydrate sweetener
spiced · cinnamon · nutmeg · allspice · glaze · icing · sticky · treat
Flour-liquid mixture for baking
oven · golden · crust · glaze · homemade · bakery · rise · warm
Earth's primary star
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- tabloidSensationalist newspaper format
- British slangInformal UK vocabulary
teacake
Small sweet bun
- sconeSmall crumbly teatime bread
- crumpetSpongy griddle bread
- afternoon teaLight meal around four
tea room · Victoria sponge · Bakewell tart · Battenberg · rock cake · teatime · elevenses · high tea
raisins
Dried grape snack
- sultanasPale dried grapes
- dried fruitDehydrated edible plant matter
- candied peelSugar-preserved citrus skin
sugar · spiced · cinnamon · nutmeg · allspice · glaze · icing · sticky · treat · snack
dough
Flour-liquid mixture for baking
proofing · oven · golden · crust · glaze · homemade · bakery · rise · warm · spiced
sun
Earth's primary star
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- tabloidSensationalist newspaper format
- bunsdinner roll, bao, cha siu bao, bap, cob
- teatime treatsscone, Victoria sponge, shortbread, crumpet, tea cake
- sweet rollscinnamon roll, sweet roll, caramel roll, pecan roll, orange roll
- British bakesteacakes, Bakewell tart, scones, scone, Welsh cake
- Cockney slangapples and pears, boat race, mince pies, porky pies, rhyming slang
currant bunplain bread
Untoasted, unspread loaf
white bread · bread roll · dinner roll · baguette · hard roll