Black Bun

In Scotland, as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, you cut your black bun and offer it around with a glass of whisky. It is a dark, succulent and concentrated mass of fruit, nuts and spices mixed with a lot of whisky, bound with very little flour and egg and sealed in a crisp pastry case. Needless to say, it is delicious and should be made weeks or months ahead to allow it to mature.<