Black bun...

[wildone81]

Hoping someone can help me with a recipe for black bun, that can be amended to make small 2/3 portion sizes cakes....

My granny mentioned how much she misses making it, but she'll be 100 in a few weeks and doesn't want to make it herself because she prob won't get use out of the spices she would need up buy!!

You can imagine how hard it is to think of Christmas ideas for her, and I'm thinking this could get me serious granddaughter points!!

This is from Sue Lawrence’s ‘Scots Cooking’. I think you could adapt it for smaller tins

I have my grans recipe sorry I don’t have the weight conversions.

1lb flour
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon all spice
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2lb brown sugar
1lb currants soaked in brandy
1/2lb raisins
2oz chopped mixed peel
2oz almonds
1 beaten egg
2 tbsp brandy

Pastry
3/4 lb flour
4oz margarine
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Cold water

Rock the pastry out thinly and line the tin leaving an inch to fall over the tin.

Mix the dry ingredients and fruit. Gradually mix in the egg and brandy to a dripping consistency. Pour it in the tin on top of the pastry. Fold the edges of the pastry over and lay a round of the pastry over the cake mixture. Make holes in the pastry with a skewer and prick the pastry lightly with a fork. Bake in a moderate oven for 4 hours.

I have no idea what a moderate oven is!

ROLL the pastry out, sorry about the typo. My gran died 15 years ago and this was her recipe ☺️ She was 97 when she died so it’s a very old recipe that she loved making every Hogmanay.