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Black Bun
A dense Scottish New Year spiced fruit loaf encased in pastry. Pricking the top of the pastry all over before baking lets steam escape evenly as it cooks, rather than the crust cracking open in one spot.
Total time
150 min
Prep
30 min
Cook
120 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
Scottish
vegetarian
Ingredients
500gplain flour for pastry
250gcold butter, cubed
cold waterto bind
500gmixed dried fruit
100gmixed peel
3/4 cupplain flour
1/4 cupbrown sugar
1 tspmixed spice
2 tspground ginger
1 tspcinnamon
1/2 tspblack pepper
1 tspbicarbonate of soda
1egg
1/2 cupwhisky or milk
Instructions
1
Make pastry: rub butter into flour. Add water. Chill.
2
Mix dried fruit, peel, flour, sugar, spices, bicarb, egg and whisky.
3
Roll two-thirds of pastry into a rectangle. Line a loaf tin. Fill with fruit mixture.
4
Top with remaining pastry. Crimp and seal. Prick top all over.
5
Bake at 180°C for 2 hours.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.
Calories
1006
Protein
8.5g
Fat
52.8g
Carbs
132g
Fiber
8.7g
Sodium
379mg
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