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Ma’s Spotted Dick
Submitted by brianjwood on February 27, 2007 at 4:53 pmDESCRIPTION
Ma's Spotted DickSUMMARY
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Ma's Spotted Dick ( OE, a childhood favourite too)12 oz plain flour (ap or weaker, maybe cake flour); 6 oz beef suet finely chopped (or vegetable suet); 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 - 1 tsp salt; 1/3 to 1/4 cup raisins or currants; cold water to mix.
Method, sift the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl. Add the suet and currants (n.b it helps to lightly flour the currants first), and mix in thoroughly. Pour cold water in gradually and mix into a fairly stiff dough. Form it into a roll, and wrap in a cloth (a tea cloth works, or any clean, plain material, maybe several layers of fine mesh muslin) that has been well dredged with flour on the inner side. Secure it well with string, or pin it together with a safety pin ? that?s what my mum used! Immerse in boiling water and simmer for about 2 hours 15 minutes. Lift out, unwrap, and serve with Lyle?s Golden Syrup (a ?must? for me!), or custard, or jam even.
You can add chopped dates; or cherries even,instead of currants but it isn't true Spotted Dick, and any Cockney would spit it out, probably!
The currants can be left out and it is then a Suet Pudding?
It can be put into a basin, on a rack in a large pan, and steamed instead of boiled in a cloth. This works fine, and tastes fine, but you lose the lovely, translucent succulence of the boiled version. Steam a bit longer in this case, say 3 1/2 hours.
To those of you wrinkling the nose and saying 'yeuk', I guarantee most husbands and kids will love it!
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