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This is an old fashioned English steamed pudding. Apparently the recipe dates back to the 1800’s however they would have used suet instead of butter and cooked for twice the time as suet takes a long time to melt.

Ingredients
2 cups self raising flour
140 grams chilled butter, diced
2/3 cup caster sugar
1 cup dried currants
3/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Zest of one large lemon

Method
Butter your steamed pudding bowl. In a large bowl rub the butter into the flour until it resembles course bread crumbs. Add all of the other ingredients and stir to make a batter.

Pour batter into pudding bowl and seal to prevent water getting in.

Place a trivet in camp oven and lower bowl onto the trivet. Fill camp oven to just over half way up the bowl with hot water and simmer for 90 minutes. Check water regularly and add more as necessary.

As you can see in the photos I used my Hillbilly Camp Oven for this one.

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Yummo I bet that pudding was delicious.

It was delicious.

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A little while back I got some suet from our butcher. Today decided to remake the old Spotted Dick as Grandma did using suet.

Was a bit messy grating the suet as I only had a small grater but overall it turned out amazing.

Here are the ingredients.

250g self-raising flour
125g grated frozen suet
150g currants or raisins
50g caster sugar
1 tsp lemon zest
A pinch of salt
150ml milk

Basically everything apart from the milk in a bowl and stir. Add milk slowly while mixing to a soft dough.

Into a pudding steamer and steamed for 2 hour.

Been a long time since I used suet and I am impressed with this one.

May do a steak and kidney pudding with it next.

Plated up photos later.

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Delicious. Just how I remember Mum’s when I was a kid. :P

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Derek
Turned our very nice.
Thanks for the photo
Kev

What diameter is the steamer mate, think mine is about 6 inches diameter and 3 inches deep.

Bear wrote on Mar 9^th, 2026 at 9:46am:

What diameter is the steamer mate, think mine is about 6 inches diameter and 3 inches deep.

Same size nearly. That one is 6 1/2 across and 3 1/4 deep. :)

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https://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl Camp Oven, Barbecue & Other Recipes >> Cakes, Pastries & Desserts >> Camp Oven Spotted Dick https://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1632023656 Message started by Derek on Sep 19^th, 2021 at 1:54pm