British food

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Do other nationalities eat custard...?



Jam Roly Poly and custard - yum, yum!




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[BARON CORNY DOG]

Yes but it is a little thicker and isn't used as a topping for other things.

[robertff]

Does anyone remember plum duff pudding - a near relation of Spotted Dick and Christmas Pudding but nicer than both and most definitely a traditional English pudding?

My grandmother used to make this very regularly when we lived very close to her, absolutely delicious.


Recipe for those who want to try it out.



Ingredients

110g Self-raising Flour
110g Shredded Suet
110g Currants
110g Sultanas
110g Bread Crumbs
110g Dark Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Nutmeg, freshly grated
250g Plums, stone-less and chopped
1/2 Medium Bramley Apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1 Orange, juice and zest#
4 tbsp Dark Rum
225ml Milk
2 Large Eggs
Method

Butter the inside of the pudding basin. Mix the flour, suet, currants, sultanas, bread crumbs, mixed spice, nutmeg and sugar in a bowl.
Add the chopped plums, apple, orange juice and zest, rum and eggs and mix together well.
Add the milk gradually and stir well. Keep adding milk until the mixture drops easily from the spoon when lifted from the bowl. Then spoon the mixture into the buttered pudding basin.
Create a lid to cover the basin (see how to steam a perfect pudding) using foil and greaseproof paper, forming a pleat in both the paper and the foil. Tie in place and create a handle, before placing the pudding basin in a steamer or lidded pan.
Ensure that the water level inside the pan reaches half way up the basin. Steam for 3 hours. Remember to check the steamer after 30 minutes to ensure that it doesn't boil dry, ensuring that the water level is always above one quarter of the way up the basin.
Once steamed, lift out the pudding and remove the foil and paper. Always use oven gloves when handling a hot pudding basin.
Loosen the pudding all round using a palette knife then remove the pudding onto a plate (the best technique is to place a large plate on top of the pudding and invert it, shaking it gently).
Enjoy with custard or double cream.


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[ChrisB]

Does anyone remember plum duff pudding - a near relation of Spotted Dick and Christmas Pudding but nicer than both and most definitely a traditional English pudding?

My grandmother used to make this very regularly when we lived very close to her, absolutely delicious.


Recipe for those who want to try it out.



Ingredients

110g Self-raising Flour
110g Shredded Suet
110g Currants
110g Sultanas
110g Bread Crumbs
110g Dark Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Nutmeg, freshly grated
250g Plums, stone-less and chopped
1/2 Medium Bramley Apple, peeled, cored and chopped
1 Orange, juice and zest#
4 tbsp Dark Rum
225ml Milk
2 Large Eggs
Method

Butter the inside of the pudding basin. Mix the flour, suet, currants, sultanas, bread crumbs, mixed spice, nutmeg and sugar in a bowl.
Add the chopped plums, apple, orange juice and zest, rum and eggs and mix together well.
Add the milk gradually and stir well. Keep adding milk until the mixture drops easily from the spoon when lifted from the bowl. Then spoon the mixture into the buttered pudding basin.
Create a lid to cover the basin (see how to steam a perfect pudding) using foil and greaseproof paper, forming a pleat in both the paper and the foil. Tie in place and create a handle, before placing the pudding basin in a steamer or lidded pan.
Ensure that the water level inside the pan reaches half way up the basin. Steam for 3 hours. Remember to check the steamer after 30 minutes to ensure that it doesn't boil dry, ensuring that the water level is always above one quarter of the way up the basin.
Once steamed, lift out the pudding and remove the foil and paper. Always use oven gloves when handling a hot pudding basin.
Loosen the pudding all round using a palette knife then remove the pudding onto a plate (the best technique is to place a large plate on top of the pudding and invert it, shaking it gently).
Enjoy with custard or double cream.


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Ah, plum duff! Very Dickensian
I've got the application form for you. Next series?

[C]

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Dickensian

Have I missed something....?



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[ChrisB]

Dickinson's real meal

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Dickinson's real meal

Very good!

I laughed out lad

Good lad

Yes, good lad

[ChrisB]

Glad you laughed, considering I meant to say "Dickinson's meal deal

[C]

Glad you laughed, considering I meant to say "Dickinson's meal deal

Even better...!




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[Six String]

Scotch eggs anyone?

[C]

Scotch eggs anyone?

The vegetarian kind (of course);








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[ChrisB]