Insurance bun

Although they have been on sale since Christmas hot cross buns are traditionally eaten today on Good Friday.  In 1592 they were banned by the Puritans and were allowed only on Good Friday or at funerals because the bun reminded them of communion and the spices were a reminder of the spices with which Jesus Christ was buried with the cross commemorating the crucifixion.
Apparently those made today have special qualities and should never go mouldy and one made 192 years ago still smells fresh and shows no sign of mould.   They could be used as insurance too!   If one is hung in the house for 12 months it should ward off fire or if one is buried in a pile of grain it should protect it from vermin.   Another old tradition was for sailors to carry slices of a hot cross bun as protection against shipwreck.   I once gave a hot cross bun that I'd made on Good Friday to a friend to place inside his boat to protect it from capsizing according to tradition, and as it never did capsize  maybe I should give him another for his newer boat! But perhaps these are too burnt so the magic wouldn't work.   Meanwhile I will rely on conventional insurances.