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An old woman has the world’s oldest hot cross bun – baked on Good Friday in 1821.

Nancy Titman was given the 189-year-old bun when her mother died. Amazingly, the bun shows no traces of mold.

“It’s a relic which has been passed down through the family. My mum said our ancestors worked in a baker’s shop and they believed buns baked on Good Friday didn’t go mouldy,” said Nancy.

“It is rock hard and the currants have disintegrated but you can tell it’s a hot cross bun and you can still see the shape of the cross.”

The bun was baked by Nancy’s great, great, great grandfather, William Skinner, who owned a bakery that time.

His son was helping in the shop that Easter and made the fruity bun as a present for his mum, but she never ate the gift and instead preserved it in a box.