Has anyone had a Spotted Dick? Yummo!

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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.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Ate it in London in 2002.

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2. What did it taste like? It looks like bread pudding.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Kind of like a bread pudding. Wasn't bad, but there are plenty of

other desserts that I like better.

[Jed Dilligan]

3. Isn't suet beef fat?

I can't see how that goes in dessert.

[Reciprocity]

7. Yes. I guess that now days you can substitute butter for it.

[Arugula Latte]

8. Yeah, I'm fresh out of suet. Darn! I'll have to use butter.

[11 Bravo]

4. I expected an obscure Michael Jackson reference.

Never mind.

[Bunny]

5. Here's some in a can!

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Yeah.

But a course of penicillin later, I was fine.

[Deja Q]

9. Only as often as I can get them... or have the money to get them...

[SOteric]

11. Not only had it, but I make it. In fact, I gave one to DS1.

[DS1]

13. Which led to the inevitable

[DS1]

14. Which led to the inevitable

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12. What's the origin of "spotted dick"?

The word "dick" has appeared in any number of strange places. Around the 1840s, "dick" was used to mean a type of hard cheese; when treacle sauce was added, it became "treacle dick", and finally when currants or raisins were added (looking like little spots), the "spotted dick" was born.

[IMOK_UROK2]

15. Other than the obvious jokes,

I've never heard mush about it, but it looks pretty good. Thanks for the
reciepe, I may want to make up a batch. Maybe give it an American name? Hmm, Sweet Spotted Cookies. Or something more understood by our American culture.:) :)

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16. Here is a recipe for a nice hot custard to go on your Spotted Dick.

Custard
3 egg yolks
1 tbsp caster sugar
1/2 pint milk
1/4 tsp vanilla essence


Whisk the yolks and sugar together in a bowl. Heat the milk in a saucepan until it is nearly boiling.
Whisk the hot milk gradually into the egg mixture. Put the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and stir the mixture over the indirect heat until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. (Direct heat will make the custard curdle.)

Stir in the vanilla essence and more sugar, according to taste. Strain and serve hot.

[IMOK_UROK2]

17. Cool, Thanks.

Sounds like a good combination.