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Recipe 1
Ingredients
4 ounces plain flour
4 ounces suet
water, to mix
4 ounces raisins or sultanas
Directions
Mix the flour, currants and grated suet (it should have the general consistency of mouse droppings) very lightly by hand.
Moisten with a couple of tablespoons of cold water, enough to give a dryish pastry texture.
DO NOT RUB, only stir enough to bind the ingredients together.
The mixture can be put into a buttered basin and covered with first a layer of foil, then a cloth (tied on with string), but the usual way is to make a thick roll shape, and wrap it in buttered greaseproof (waxed?) paper, and tie into a cloth.
Boil in a lot of water for two to three hours on top of the stove, or all day if using a crock pot.
Some people serve it with egg custard, but others consider serving spotted dick with moist brown sugar and a large spoonful of salted butter a must.
Use both if you like.
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Recipe 2
Spotted Dick
2 oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
pinch of salt
2 oz shredded suet
1 oz white or brown sugar
4 oz currants
2 oz fresh breadcrumbs
1 egg, beaten
4-5 tbsp milk
Butter a 1.5 pint pudding basin. Sift the flour, baking powder, spice and salt into a mixing bowl and mix in the suet, sugar, fruit and bread- crumbs. Stir in the egg and sufficient milk to produce a soft consistency that drops off the spoon in 5 seconds.
Turn the mixture into the pudding basin, which should be two-thirds full. Cover with greased foil or a snap-on lid (the plastic container from a 2 lb Christmas pudding is worth saving for this purpose.) Steam for 2 to 2.5 hours. When cooked, remove the cover and allow the pudding to shrink slightly, then cover the basin with a hot serving plate, hold it firmly and invert. Lift off the basin to leave the pudding on the plate.
Serve hot with custard.
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These are recipes that are just out there, they aren't my own personal recipes, and honestly, I'm not sure I want to try shredded suet (hard fat around kidneys of cattle). It's just fun to say lol
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