Kitchener bun World War I led to its renaming in honour of the British field marshal Lord Horatio Kitchener. Kitchener bun A Kitchener bun is a type of sweet pastry made and sold in South Australia. It consists of a bun sometimes baked, sometimes fried, made from a sweet yeasted dough similar to that used for making doughnuts, split and then filled with raspberry or strawberry jam and cream, most often with a dusting of sugar on the top. The Kitchener bun resembles the Berliner, a pastry of German origin – although distinguished from it by an open face and the use
Colston bun Colston bun A Colston bun is a sweet bun made of a yeast dough flavoured with dried fruit such as currants, candied peel, streusel and sweet spices. It is made in the city of Bristol, England, and named after the local 17th and 18th century merchant trader Edward Colston, who created the original recipe. It comes into two size categories: "dinner plate" with eight wedge marks on the surface and "ha'penny staver", an individual sized bun. The Colston Bun is traditionally distributed to children on Colston Day (13 November), which celebrates the granting of a Royal Charter to the Society