Old English Spotty Dick Pudding

Welcome, here is a good old fashioned free recipe from Grandma, she used to make this every Sunday dessert.   We make this whenever we want to. Grandma came from English stock so she cooked a lot of English recipes.  We hope that you try this one out. 

There isn’t much to it but, it great hot or cold.  Today you can buy ready madepotty Dick but it isn’t made the orginal way, they make it today as a sponge mix, but years gone by they made it with suet pastry.

Ingredients

3 cups of  flour

1 and a half cups of  Suet (if fresh then shred it)

1 cup of currants.

a little water to mix

and a cloth to put it in (we use a piece of linen)

Well lets get cooking.

Put the flour and suet into a mixing bowl, add the currants and a little water and mix together  until it forms a dough.

Now place the cloth on a flat surface, take the suet pastry that you just made and with the plam of your hands roll the dough to form a ball, place the ball of dough into the centre of the cloth, take the ends of the cloth and tie them together making sure that the dough is completely enclosed in the cloth.

Take a large saucepan of water and put the pudding into the water and boil for 1 and half to 2 hours, being careful not to let the saucepan to boil dry, (make sure the pudding is covered by the water.

Once cooked take out of the water (being careful not to burn yourself, I use a set of tongs).  Untie the cloth and take out the pudding, and place on a plate, your pudding is done.  Slice the pudding into individual pieces and serve with either a sprinkling of sugar or with custard.  This pudding can be eaten hot or cold.

We often have half of the pudding with sugar sprinkled with sugar and the rest we leave to get cold and just slice a piece when we want it.

We hope that you enjoy this recipe as much as have all through our lives.

Flo and Polly

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