Spotted dick
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Spotted dick is a traditional English steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), which is usually served either with custard or with butter and brown sugar. Spotted refers to the raisins (which resemble spots) and Dick may be a contraction/corruption of the word pudding (from the last syllable) or possibly a corruption of the word dough.[1] It is possibly conjugated originally from sticky pudding to dicky pudding to dicky to dick and finally spotted dick as in pudding with raisins. It is also known as spotted dog, plum duff, steamed dicky, figgy dowdy, dotted lloyd, packphour's lament, dicky widmark as well as plum bolster, Spotted Richard. and it is sometimes even called a Dickie Burton after the famous actor.
Recipes for spotted dick include the following:
- White bread crumbs
- Self-raising flour
- Shredded suet
- Raisins or currants
- Salt
- Nutmeg
- Ginger
- Mace
- Citrus fruit peel
- Eggs
- Brandy
- Sugar
- Butter
- Custard
- Brown Sugar
External links
- Spotted Dick back on menu – a 10 Sept 2002 BBC article describing how the name was changed to Spotted Richard on Gloucestershire hospital menus, then changed back
- Spotted Dick Recipe
- ^ What's the origin of "spotted dick"? – a 27 Aug 2002 Straight Dope article on the etymology of the name