Black Bun

Name: Black Bun
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: orange, lemon, and citron peel; brandy; crust: flour; flour; muscatel raisins, 1; butter; sweet almonds; currants; water; baking-soda; buttermilk or eggs; Jamaic a pepper; black pepper; ground cloves or cinnamon; ground ginger; Demerara sugar

A Festive Cake at Hogmanay

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Scots Kitchen

By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

About

Old Family Recipe

Ingredients

muscatel raisins, ¹
currants
sweet almonds
orange, lemon, and citron peel

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Wash and dry two pounds of currants. Stone two pounds of Muscatel raisins. Blanch and chop half a pound of almonds. Chop half a pound of mixed candied peel. Sift a