SC - Spotted Dick (the recipe ;^D)

[L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt]

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>My mother-in-law was reading over my shoulder when I got to this post - she
>said it sounds a lot like spotted dick.  Anybody have a modern recipe for
>comparison?
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>Alasdair mac Iain
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Spotted Dick

8 oz flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
4 oz. suet
3 oz sugar
4 oz currants
milk to mix.

Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder. Add the suet, sugar, and cleaned
currants and mix with milk to make a soft dough. place this on a greased and
floured pudding cloth and shape into a roll. Roll up the cloth and tie both
ends, leaving room for the pudding to swell. Steam 2 1/2-3 hours. Serve with
custard or jam sauce.

Alternate recipe:

Spotted Dick

Sieve together 4 oz. flour, a pinch of salt and 1 tsp baking powder. Add 4
ozs breadcrumbs, 3-4 ozs shredded suet, and 3 ozs prepared currants. Mix to
a soft dropping consistency with milk or water. Turn into a greased basin,
two-thirds filling it. Cover with greased paper and steam for 2-3 hours.
Serve with custard or a sweet wine sauce.

Now, please le tme know if I have left anyone out of the "I'm sooooo
offended list." It's a genuine dish, folks, but not period due to the
leavening and steaming. Both are slightly OOP by any stretch of the
imagination. The above recipes from a 1952 Good Housekeeping Cookery
Compendium, The Waverly Book Company, Sun Printers. ltd., Waterford, England.

Aoife 

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