Citrus jam roly poly spotted dick pudding
This recipe is a new take on the traditional English puddings of jam roly poly and spotted dick. It brings both together in one delicious pudding, and enhances them with a citrus zesty twist throughout and a spicy citrus preserve filling
Servings: 10 slices
Calories:
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Alter quantities (metric only) 10 slices
Here's what you'll need...
- Large roasting dish
- Rack or cooling rack - oven safe
Ingredients you'll need...
Dry ingredients
- 200 g self raising flour sifted
- pinch of salt
- 100 g vegetable shredded suet
- 120 g raisins or sultanas or pre-soaked currants
- 55 g caster sugar
Wet ingredients
- 150 ml whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- zest of 1 orange
- zest of 1 lemon
Citrus filling
- 135 g orange and ginger preserve or any citrus preserve of your choice, including marmalade
Topping
- milk for brushing
- 1 tablespoon demerara sugar
Here's what we do...
- Preheat your oven to 350°F/180°C/160°C fan/Gas Mark 4
- Cut a sheet of greaseproof paper measuring 50cm x 37.5cm
- Cut a sheet of foil measuring 55cm x 37.5cm
- Add all of your dry ingredients to a bowl and mix well.
- Mix your milk with your vanilla essence,
- Add your milk mixture to the dry ingredients along with your lemon and orange zest.
- Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon then go in with your hands to ensure all of the dry ingredients and mixed into the wet.
- Flour your worksurface to a space of about 25cm x 35cm.
- Tip your mixture out onto your floured surface and knead briefly to ensure everything is fully incorporated, This will take about 10 kneads.
- Roll the dough out into a rectangle measuring 22cm x 32cm.
- Spread your preserve out over the dough, leaving about a 1½ cm gap around the edges.
- Roll the dough up starting with the 22cm edge.
- Press the seam down to seal and squidge the ends together to seal those too.
- Place the roly poly into the middle of your greaseproof paper, seam side down and facing that the longest side of the greaseproof paper.
- Bring the edges of the greaseproof paper together above the roly poly and then fold over several times to form a pleat. make sure there is space between the pleat and the roly poly so that it can expand.
- Tie the edges of the greaseproof paper with kitchen string so that it looks like a cracker.
- Repeat with the foil.
- Half fill a large roasting tin with just boiled water.
- Place a rack above the roasting tray of water so it balances on the top, and place the roly poly on top of the rack.
- Leave to bake for an hour, when ready the roly poly will have expanded and be hard to touch.
- Remove from your oven, remove the foil and greaseproof paper and serve with lashings of hot vanilla custard or ice cream.