About Authentic English Recipes
It's great to try new recipes for the first time. To experience new flavors and food combinations you may never have thought of. But for most of our day to day cooking we never open a cookbook or precisely measure ingredients. We go by what feels right and the experience of cooking the same meal many times before.
The How To Make Authentic English Recipes series is more about the method and the ingredients than it is about precise measuring. This is the way our Grandmothers and Mothers cooked. These are recipes my Grandmother passed down to my Mother and then to me.
I hope you enjoy this series of cookbooks and will soon be using these homemade recipes and cooking like a true Brit.
About How To Make Spotted Dick & Other Suet Puddings
There is nothing quite like traditional English steamed puddings and this great addition to the best selling series Authentic English Recipes contains a selection of the most popular ones.
Suet puddings can be sweet or savoury. There are also three different types of suet pastry - basic, savory or sweet.
Here's the recipes you'll find in this book:
Basic Suet Crust (yes, there's an option for vegetarians)
The Sweet Suet Pudding Recipes
The Savoury Suet Pudding Recipes
I have modified all the recipes slightly so that they use US measurements and ingredients. I have also included metric conversions and gas marks for European readers.
Get this book now and try your hand at some truly unique and tasty recipes that you don't see every day.
This is the 10th book of a 10-book Authentic English Recipes series.
It has an overall 5 star rating.
Sales of this book are slow but steady.
Spotted Dick is not the king of suet puddings but it certainly has the most memorable name - at least as far as North Americans are concerned.
Spotted Dicks are often featured dessert items on British menus and it’s not unusual to see many English men and women enjoying their Dicks covered in Bird’s custard or Tate & Lyle’s Golden Syrup.
The secret to making a great Spotted Dick is suet which is just a kind of fat.
What Is Suet?
Suet is the beef fat that surrounds the kidneys. It has a high melting point between 113°F and 122°F (45°C and 50°C). This is much higher than lard, (pork fat), which has a melting point between 86˚F and 104˚F (30˚C and 40˚C). Leaf fat lard, which is the highest grade, has a melting point between 109˚F and 118˚F (43˚C and 48˚C). Unfortunately leaf fat lard is rarely available commercially.
But I’m A Vegetarian
Not to worry, although true suet is made from animal fat you can buy a light version made entirely from vegetable fat. This is a commercial product made by Atora that can be used in any suet recipe.
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