SPOTTED DICK WITH CUSTARD SAUCE RECIPE

Spotted Dick with Custard Sauce Recipe image

Provided by Coppermouse

Number Of Ingredients 30

Spotted Dick
2 oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
pinch of salt
2 oz shredded suet
1 oz white or brown sugar
4 oz currants
2 oz fresh breadcrumbs
1 egg, beaten
4-5 tbsp milk
Butter a 1.5 pint pudding basin. Sift the flour, baking powder, spice
and salt into a mixing bowl and mix in the suet, sugar, fruit and
bread- crumbs. Stir in the egg and sufficient milk to produce a soft
consistency that drops off the spoon in 5 seconds.
Turn the mixture into the pudding basin, which should be two-thirds
full. Cover with greased foil
Custard
3 egg yolks
1 tbsp caster sugar
1/2 pint milk
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
Whisk the yolks and sugar together in a bowl. Heat the milk in a
saucepan until it is nearly boiling.
Whisk the hot milk gradually into the egg mixture. Put the bowl over
a saucepan of simmering water and stir the mixture over the indirect
heat until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon.
(Direct heat will make the custard curdle.)
Stir in the vanilla essence and more sugar, according to taste.
Strain and serve hot.

Steps:

Steam for 2 to 2.5 hours. When cooked, remove the cover and allow the pudding to shrink slightly, then cover the basin with a hot serving plate, hold it firmly and invert. Lift off the basin to leave the pudding on the plate. Serve hot with custard.