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Spotted Dick
A steamed suet pudding studded with currants, served with custard. The oddly named British classic.
The whole recipe in 60 seconds
Spotted Dick, in 5 ideas
- Suet makes it light, do not substitute butter.
- The pudding basin needs room, the pudding swells.
- Keep the water topped up while steaming.
- Serve with proper custard, nothing else will do.
- Leftovers fry up beautifully in butter.
What you need
Ingredients
- 250g flour
- 125g suet
- 100g currants
- 75g sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 150ml milk
- Butter, for the basin
- Custard, to serve
How to make it
Directions
- Butter a 1 liter pudding basin.
- Mix flour, suet, currants, sugar and lemon zest, then stir in milk to a soft dough.
- Pack into the basin, cover with pleated parchment and foil, and tie with string.
- Steam over simmering water 1 hour 30 minutes, topping up the water.
- Turn out and serve hot with custard.
Money saver. Suet is one of the cheapest baking fats, ask for it at the butcher counter.