Spotted Dick

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 12 ounces self-raising flour, sifted, plus extra for sprinkling
• 5 ounces vegetable suet or 5 ounces beef suet, shredded
• 4 ounces caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
• 6 ounces currants
• to taste custard (to serve)

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl mix the flour, suet, sugar, currants and 12 fl.oz. water to a soft dough.
• 2 shape into a long sausage and wrap in greaseproof paper.
• 3 fill a pan that is large enough to take the dough sausage, allowing room to expand, with water.
• 4 bring to the boil.
• 5 dip a clean tea towel in hot water, wring it out and sprinkle it with flour.
• 6 roll up the pudding loosely in the cloth and tie at each end.
• 7 place the pudding in the pan and simmer for 2 hours.
• 8 remove the tea towel and greaseproof paper, sprinkle with sugar and serve warm with custard.