A dessert dish from the British kitchen.
Ingredients
- 250g Self-raising Flour
- pinch Salt
- 125g Suet
- 175g Currants
- 80g Caster Sugar
- Zest of 1 Lemon
- Zest of 1 Orange
- 150ml Milk
- to serve Custard
Method
- Put the flour and salt in a bowl. Add the suet, currants, sugar, lemon and orange zest. Pour in 150ml milk and mix to a firm but moist dough, adding the extra milk if necessary. Shape into a fat roll about 20cm long. Place on a large rectangle of baking parchment. Wrap loosely to allow for the pudding to rise and tie the ends with string like a Christmas cracker. Place a steamer over a large pan of boiling water, add the pudding to the steamer, cover and steam for 1 1/2 hours. Top up the pan with water from time to time. Remove from the steamer and allow to cool slightly before unwrapping. Serve sliced with custard.
Source
This recipe is adapted from TheMealDB (id 52886), a free community-curated recipe API. Original listing: themealdb.com.
A walkthrough video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu15XOF-ros.
Original source noted by the contributor: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2686661/spotted-dick.
Estimated by AI from the ingredient list. Values are approximate and not medical advice. If you have specific dietary requirements, verify with a registered dietitian or trusted nutrition database.
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