The "Cloutie Dumpling" (pronounced clooty) is a traditional Scottish steamed pudding with fruit and spices. Although it is a dessert on the day it is made, while it is still warm, the following days it is normally cut into flat slices and gently fried in a little butter and eaten with fried egg and bacon for breakfast. It's traditionally made for Christmas and birthdays and used to contain an old silver threepenny or sixpenny coin, magic how it always appeared to be in the slice of whoever's birthday it was! The name "Cloutie" refers to the cloth it is wrapped and cooked in.
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