[Sca-cooks] Suet dumplings

[Stefan li Rous]

Morgana LeCoeur said:
> Suet dumplings.  I refuse to put fruit peel in them though.  That would
> make them penance food.  (and I had a butcher once tell me that I'm too
> young to know how to make them)

These are a dough with suet inside?

Why would putting fruit peel in them make them "penance food"?
Because they would then be bitter? I think just the plain suet
dumplings sound like they might be "penance food". Or do they not
end up being greasy?

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