Recipe for Spotted Dick

[Doreen Rich]

I found this recipe for Spotted Dick

The following recipe is a traditional one for making this great 
pudding and will serve four
    normal people, two greedy ones or one pig.

        Recipe for Spotted Dick

           2 oz white breadcrumbs
            2 oz self raising flour
             4 oz shredded suet
         8 oz prepared stoned raisins
              1/8 teaspoon salt
             1/2 grated nutmeg
          1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
             1/8 teaspoon mace
    1 oz whole candidied peel, finely chopped
           grated zest of one orange
                  3 eggs
            3 tablespoons brandy


    Mix the breadcrumbs with the suet and flour in a large bowl. Add 
the raisins making sure that
    noneare stuck together. When these ingredients are well mixed, 
add the salt, nutmeg, ginger,
    mace, candidied peel and orange zest, mixing thoroughly. 

    In a small basin beat the eggs well and add them with the brandy 
to the mixture, stirring for at
    least five minutes to amalgamate the contents thoroughly. Pack 
the pudding basin with the
    mixture, cover with greas-proof paper and foil and tie down with 
a string. Steam for four
    hours, making sure that the saucepan doesn't boil dry. Serve with 
lashings of hot custard. 

Doreen