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Steamed Apple Spotted Dick Recipe

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Ingredients

Directions

Step #1 Sift the flour, baking powder, spice & a bit of salt into a large bowl.
Step #2 Stir in the suet, sugar, currants, apple & lemon zest.
Step #3 Add the milk, stirring to form a sticky dough.
Step #4 Spoon the mixture into 6 greased 150-200ml pudding basins, topped with a disc of baking parchment & covered tightly with foil wrap.
Step #5 Place In a large-ish saucepan or deep roasting tin & add enough boiling water to come three quarters of the way up the tin.
Step #6 Cook for 2 hrs, keeping the water on a gentle simmer & topping up every once in awhile with more boiling water.
Step #7 Carefully lift the basins out of the pan & remove the foil wrap & paper.
Step #8 Turn out of the moulds & serve topped with a drizzle of golden syrup, custard or ice cream if you like (though the last choice is not as English).
Step #9 You can also do this in one large 1.
Step #10 2 litre pudding basin.
Step #11 Just be sure to butter it, spoon in the mixture & cover with pleated baking paper, followed by a layer of foil wrap.
Step #12 Tie with string & steam for 2-1/2 hrs.
Step #13 Goes well with a dessert wine or a late harvest.
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