Rib sticking using up pudding for a cold day
The weather turned cold and miserable today, so I decided to kill four birds with one stone:
- Steamed suet pudding, to help get though the weather
- Use up some oranges that were going past their best
- Answer the question: can you make suet pudding in a slow cooker
- Answer the question: can you use clingfilm instead of muslin and safe yourself a tonne of time.
You will need
- 100g self raising flour
- 100g suet
- A pinch of salt
- Enough fruit to fill a 1 litre pudding bowl and something sweet (I used 3 oranges, 1 tin of pears and a heaped spoonful marmalade)
- A teaspoon or so of butter
Do
- Prepare the fruit. I went for chunks of orange about 2cm across
- Boil the kettle and stick the low cooker on
- Mix the flour, suet, salt and enough cold water to make a very slightly sticky dough
- Butter the inside of the pudding bowl
- Press the dough into the bowl reserving enough to make a lid
- Pile the fruit and marmalade in
- Lid with the remaining dough. In my case it didn’t quite fit but it worked out ok
- Clingfilm the pudding bowl
- Stand the bowl in the slowcooker and pour the boiling water round it carefully
- Cook for at least a couple of hours
- Tinned custard is your friend
Result
Savoury as all heck.
