Kitchener bun World War I led to its renaming in honour of the British field marshal Lord Horatio Kitchener. Kitchener bun A Kitchener bun is a type of sweet pastry made and sold in South Australia. It consists of a bun sometimes baked, sometimes fried, made from a sweet yeasted dough similar to that used for making doughnuts, split and then filled with raspberry or strawberry jam and cream, most often with a dusting of sugar on the top. The Kitchener bun resembles the Berliner, a pastry of German origin – although distinguished from it by an open face and the use
Black bun Christmas pudding mixture, including ingredients such as raisins and currants along with spices such as cinnamon, black pepper and allspice. It has been called a much bigger version of a Garibaldi biscuit, and it has been suggested that the origin of that biscuit may have been influenced by the black bun because the inventor of the biscuit, John Carr, was Scottish. Outside Scotland, the black bun is also eaten in the Appalachia region of the United States. In 2013, a recipe was demonstrated by Paul Hollywood on a Christmas special of "The Great British Bake Off". The cake was originated