How to Make Spotted Dick - The Victorian Way

[Music] oh hello today i'm making one of the simplest recipes i know spotted dick or plum bolster it's ideal for the servants hall and very popular for the nursery and at schools well it is very cheap to make for this recipe you will need [Music] flour suet currants sugar [Music] cinnamon egg and milk first i'm going to mix the flour the currants the sugar and the sewage together everybody loves this pudding and so it has lots of different names plum bolster well plum because it has dried fruit in it and bolster as i suppose it looks like a bolster on your bed current pudding and spotted dick which really means spotted dough now i'm going to add a little cinnamon and i'm going to whisk an egg into half of the milk [Music] the dough doesn't want to be too sticky so i shall add the rest of the milk a little at the time [Music] [Music] now that the dough is firm but not too sticky i'm just going to knead it a little more and it's ready to be wrapped in a cloth my cloth is already damp so i just need to sprinkle it with a little flour and make a bolster shape with the dough you must make sure that you wrap it up really tightly and now it's ready for boiling [Music] so [Music] now that's been at a rolling boil for just over two hours so it should be ready now i need to unwrap it for the servants hall i'm going to serve it with a very thick custard there we are spotted dick [Music] you

Channel: English Heritage

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Keywords: English Heritage, history, mrs crocombe, heritage, victorian cooking

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Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 26 2021