Spotted Dick
A weekend British dessert. Ready in about 2 hours 21 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.
- 21 minPrep (about)
- 2 hrCook (about)
- 2 hr 21 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- More effortDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
- 9 oz self-rising flour Shopping tip: Self-rising flour (UK: self-raising).
- 4 oz suet
- 6 oz currant
- 2 ¾ oz superfine sugar Shopping tip: Superfine sugar (UK: caster). Regular sugar works.
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 orange
- ½ cup + 2 tbsp milk
- to serve custard
Spices & seasonings (1): salt
- pinch salt
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Put your flour and salt in a bowl.
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Add the orange zest, lemon, sugar, currants and suet.
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Pour in ½ cup + 2 tbsp milk.
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Mix to firm but moist dough, adding your extra milk if necessary.
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Shape in a fat roll about 8 inches long.
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Place on a big rectangle of baking parchment.
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Wrap loosely to let for your pudding to rise plus tie your ends with string like a Christmas cracker.
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Place a steamer over a big pan of boiling water.
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Add your pudding to your steamer, cover plus steam for 1 1 2 hours.
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Top up your pan with water from time to time.
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Remove from the steamer and let it cool slightly before unwrapping.
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Serve sliced with custard.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.