Spotted Dick is a steamed pudding, It is
made with dried fruits. This is a very popular
dessert in the United Kingdom. The Spotted refers to the
raisins whick look like spots and Dick is a corruption of the
word dough. A very filling dessert originally make to fill up
the family so they wouldn't eat the more expensive
meat.
It is also known as dicky
pudding spotted dog, plum duff, dicky pudding, shevchenko
pudding, figgy dowdy, as well as plum bolster, and Spotted
Richard.
SPOTTED DICK WITH A PUDDING CLOTH
8 oz Self-raising flour
4 oz Shredded suet
8 oz Currants or Raisins
150 ml Cold Water
1 oz Sugar
1 pinch salt
Pudding Cloth
Mix together the flour, sugar, salt, suet and the
currents/raisins.
Keep mixing and add a little water at a time until the
whole
becomes a firm dough.
Roll into a long cylindrical shape that is about 8 inches
long.
Take the pudding cloth, dry and then dust with
flour and wrap it around the dough cylinder. Tie off each end
of
the cloth. Make sure that you leave a room between
the ends of the
dough cylinder and the cloth to allow for expansion when
steaming.
Put into a large pan of boiling water and boil for approx 2
hours
making sure that you top up the pan with boiling water and
do not allow to boil dry.
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