Pockmarked and Fat, this is how this food was presented in the comedy King Ralph.
To be honest, in my youth, behind the nasal voice of our translator, I heard something completely different, pronounced in English, but... About what I heard, I preferred to be silent. Because others would undoubtedly say that auditory hallucinations will happen in everyone to the extent of promiscuity.
However, now, having become an adult, independent of public opinion and generally a lover of culinary truth, I can state with full responsibility.
I didn't hear anything! It was it that figured in the film - an English folk, one might say, dish. Spotted dick. Spotted wild.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the volume of the phrase: a hot, sweet dish, consisting of cake and dried fruit. However, I can literally see through the monitor how those familiar with slang expressions began to smile. I can imagine what a dead end the translator is at, because comedy is by definition a family comedy. So he gave out "Pockmarked and fat".
Well, yes, yes, that's how they are - prim islanders. So they strive to throw such a... incident to the continental inhabitants.
So, we take:
- 250 g self-rising flour
- 125 g pork fat (exactly fat, not lard, fat is melted lard)
- 180 g dried currants (can be replaced with raisins)
- 80 g icing sugar
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- finely grated zest of 1 small orange
- 150 ml of milk plus another 2-3 tbsp. l.
- A pinch of salt
How do we cook
Mix pork fat, currants or raisins, powdered sugar, lemon and orange zest in a bowl with flour and salt.
Add milk - all 150 ml and stir until the dough is thick and viscous. If it's very thick, you can add a couple of tablespoons of milk additionally.
Then we form from this dough either a roll, or something similar to a head of cheese and wrap the parchments, but not tightly, but so that the pudding has a place to climb. There is a nuance - we do not just wrap it, but so that the ends of the parchment can be fixed with a stapler at the top
Previously, they were tied, but I did not succeed in tying them, probably when the recipe was invented, it was not parchment for baking that was used, but fabric. Therefore, the stapler went into action. I will not show it, because the result looked very, very poor - a bag of crumpled parchment for baking (I honestly tried to bandage it), in which paper clips stick out crookedly and obliquely.
Then we put this all in a double boiler, already preheated, and cook for an hour and a half.
This pudding is served with custard.
Shl. If without authenticity, then the pudding can be put in a mold and put in a double boiler already in the mold. And replace pork fat with butter.