Spotted Dick

Name: Spotted Dick
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 servings Custard sauce; 118 milliliters mixed currants and golden raisins or other assorted dried fruit; 1 teaspoons finely grated fresh lemon zest; 6 servings Suet pastry dough

Need a vegetarian side dish? Spotted Dick could be an awesome recipe to try. One serving contains 265 calories, 7g of protein, and 7g of fat. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have suet pastry dough, currants and golden raisins, lemon zest, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 5 hours.

Instructions

Fill a large heavy pot (at least 8 inches across by 6 inches deep, with a tight-fitting lid) with 1 1/2 inches water. Make a platform for pudding by setting metal cookie cutters or egg-poaching rings in bottom of pot. Knead fruit and zest into dough and form dough into a ball. Put into well-buttered pudding mold and flatten top. Top dough with a round of buttered wax paper, buttered side down, and cover top of mold with heavy-duty foil, crimping tightly around edge.

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Dough

Fruit

Water

Egg

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Cookie Cutter

Wax Paper

Aluminum Foil

Pot

Bring water in pot to a boil and set mold on platform. Steam pudding, covered, over simmering water 1 1/2 to 2 hours (add more boiling water to pot if necessary), or until golden and puffed.

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Water

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Pot

Transfer pudding in mold to a rack and let stand 5 minutes. Discard foil and wax paper and run a thin knife around edge of pudding. Invert a plate over mold, then invert pudding onto plate.

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Wax Paper

Knife