Ah it’s that other fruity sponge served at Christmas, a Christmas cake in pastry.

Glad to see it’s not just me that was brought up (Renfrewshire) with sausages in steak pie. Agreed they definitely have to be skinless ones though.

Sausages in steak pie here too. Whether home made or from the local butcher.

Dunno why its a tradition … just is.

As for a black bun … never heard of that before … must investigate. Not something I’ve heard of round my way much. (North Ayrshire)

Steak pie right up there with Christmas cake fried with the bacon on boxing day.

This is only strengthening my resolve to move north of the border…

I was told steak pie as a tradition goes back to the days when most Scots didn’t have an oven in their house. The filling could be made in advance and put in an ashet, and then taken to the village bakers who would cook it. This then meant the fireplace was not in use which enabled it to be cleaned out as is the tradition for the new year coming.

Of course that might all be BS, but it sounded credible to me.

I am partial to an Eccles cake or two drac but in my experience they are much less solid than black bun.

Maybe I have been eating crap Eccles cakes