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Hogmanay

The Scottish New Year: the first visitor after midnight brings black bun, shortbread and whisky.

Fireworks over Edinburgh on New Year's Eve
Photo: Robbie Shade, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Hogmanay

Hogmanay is the Scottish New Year, long a bigger holiday in Scotland than Christmas. After midnight comes first-footing. The first person over the threshold should bring gifts for the house: a piece of coal, shortbread, whisky and black bun, a dense dark fruit cake wrapped in pastry. Visitors are given a dram and something to eat in every house. On New Year's Day many families sit down to steak pie.

The dishes

ShortbreadOffered to every visitor.Scotch whiskyA dram for each guest after midnight.Steak pieThe New Year's Day dinner in Scotland.

Also part of it, and being written: Black bun (Fruit cake in pastry, carried by the first-footer.), Clootie dumpling (Fruit pudding boiled in a cloth.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Hogmanay" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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