Spotted dick
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'''Spotted dick''' is a traditional [[United Kingdom|British]] steamed [[pudding]], historically made with [[suet]] and [[dried fruit]] (usually [[Zante currant|currant]]s or [[raisin]]s) and often served with [[custard]]. |
'''Spotted dick''' is a traditional [[United Kingdom|British]] steamed [[pudding]], historically made with [[suet]] and [[dried fruit]] (usually [[Zante currant|currant]]s or [[raisin]]s) and often served with [[custard]]. |
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Non-traditional variants include recipes that replace suet with other fats (such as butter), or that include eggs to make something similar to a sponge pudding or cake.{{Cite web |date=2014-01-23 |title=Spotted Dick |url=https://britishfoodhistory.com/2014/01/23/spotted-dick/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=British Food: A History |language=en}} |
Non-traditional variants include recipes that replace suet with other fats (such as butter), or that include eggs to make something similar to a sponge pudding or cake.{{Cite web |date=2014-01-23 |title=Spotted Dick |url=https://britishfoodhistory.com/2014/01/23/spotted-dick/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=British Food: A History |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415110613/https://britishfoodhistory.com/2014/01/23/spotted-dick/|archive-date=15 April 2021}} |
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==Etymology== |
==Etymology== |
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The dish is first attested in [[Alexis Soyer]]'s ''The Modern Housewife or, Ménagère'', published in 1849,{{cite book|author=Eric Partridge|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRuNMHNcu5cC&pg=PA5085|date=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-79542-9|pages=5085–}} in which he described a recipe for "Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick{{snd}}Roll out two pounds of paste{{nbsp}}[...] have some [[Smyrna]] raisins well washed".{{cite book|author=John Ayto|title=A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink from A to Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxqbMkntnLMC|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280025-1}} |
The dish is first attested in [[Alexis Soyer]]'s ''The Modern Housewife or, Ménagère'', published in 1849,{{cite book|author=Eric Partridge|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRuNMHNcu5cC&pg=PA5085|date=2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-79542-9|pages=5085–}} in which he described a recipe for "Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick{{snd}}Roll out two pounds of paste{{nbsp}}[...] have some [[Smyrna]] raisins well washed".{{cite book|author=John Ayto|title=A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink from A to Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxqbMkntnLMC|year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280025-1}} |
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The name "spotted dog" first appeared in 1855, in C.M. Smith's "Working-men's Way in the World" where it was described as a "very marly species of plum-pudding". This name, along with "railway cake", is most common in Ireland where it is made more similar to a [[soda bread]] loaf with the addition of currants.{{Cite web |date=2002-08-27 |title=What's the origin of "spotted dick"? |url=https://www.straightdope.com/21343169/what-s-the-origin-of-spotted-dick |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=[[The Straight Dope]] |language=en}} |
The name "spotted dog" first appeared in 1855, in C.M. Smith's "Working-men's Way in the World" where it was described as a "very marly species of plum-pudding". This name, along with "railway cake", is most common in Ireland where it is made more similar to a [[soda bread]] loaf with the addition of currants."straightdope">{{Cite web |date=2002-08-27 |title=What's the origin of "spotted dick"? |url=https://www.straightdope.com/21343169/what-s-the-origin-of-spotted-dick |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=[[The Straight Dope]] |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420074426/https://www.straightdope.com/21343169/what-s-the-origin-of-spotted-dick|archive-date=20 April 2024}} |
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The ''[[Pall Mall Gazette]]'' reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn Sisters{{nbsp}}[...] daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick".{{cite book|last=Ayto|first=John|title=The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink|page=349|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199640249|year=2012}} |
The ''[[Pall Mall Gazette]]'' reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn Sisters{{nbsp}}[...] daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick".{{cite book|last=Ayto|first=John|title=The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink|page=349|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199640249|year=2012}} |
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