Spotted Dick Pudding

Ingredients

• 110g  raisins
• 110g currants
• 80g soft brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• grated zest of 1 lemon
• 325g  self raising flour
• 160g suet 
• 2 eggs
• a pinch of salt
• 300ml milk

Method

Mix the raisins and currants with 2 tablespoons of the flour till they are well coated. Add the sugar, cinnamon and zest. 

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, add the suet, the salt and rub together to form breadcrumbs. Add the eggs and milk, mix till a soft elastic dough starts to form, then add in the fruit.

Cook the Spotted Dick either in a pudding bowl or wrapped in a cloth napkin by carefully steaming for 2 hours and then serve hot with lashings of custard.  You may wish to loosely wrap the pudding in tin foil and gently bake it in the oven for 1 - 1.5 hours.