The Kitchener bun is a type of sweet pastry made and sold in

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since 1915. 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

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and

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, most often with a dusting of sugar on the top. The Kitchener bun resembles the

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, a pastry of German origin – although distinguished from it by an open face and the use of more cream than jam – and was, in fact, known as such until anti-German sentiment in

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led to its renaming in honour of the British field marshal Lord Kitchener. In a 1930 recipe the jam is sealed into the pastry before deep-frying in fat, and there is no mention of cream until 1934. Ten years later, an

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baker was fined £15 2 (around $1000) for using cream in his Kitchener buns, contrary to provisions in the National Security Regulations.

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Recent Kitchener bun recipe
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