I have decided to try and make my own clootie dumpling, but my mum's recipe has disappeared :(  Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe they are willing to share with me? ;)  Thanks.

Jax

What is clootie dumpling?  :)

It's a rich sort of suet pudding (bit like Christmas pud, but paler) which is traditionally cooked in a cloth (cloot!).

Here's a receipe for it :-

6oz self raising flour
6oz brown breadcrumps
6oz suet
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
4oz currants
6oz sultanas
4oz soft dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons syrup
1.5 cups milk or milk stout

Place your cloot in boiling water. Mix all the ingredients together with the milk to make a fairly soft consistency. Make sure everything is mixed well. Take the cloot out of the water and wring, then lay it out flat and dredge well with flour. Smooth the flour over the cloot with your hands to get an even spread. Place the mixture on the cloot, draw it together evenly, leaving room for expansion, and tie the cloot with string.

Put a plate in the bottom of the pot, and the cloot with the mixture on top of that. Use a large pot, big enough to allow covering the dumpling with water. That way there will be no need to top up through the cooking.

Simmer the dumpling for two to three hours. Remove from the pot and put in a colander in the sink. Untie the string and gently pull the corners of the cloot apart. Put a plate over the dumpling in the colander and whip it over. Carefully peel the cloot away from one corner and you should have a champion dumpling :-)

Of course, you can always grease a pudding basin and put the mixture in there, cover the top & cook as for a Christmas pud!

Long time since I had a clootie dumpling, though!

Margot

Oo.......sounds lovely!  :)

Thanks Margot, going to give it a go next week.

I couldn't put it in a greased pudding basin - the best bit it is drying the clootie dumpling out infront of the fire and getting a lovely skin ;)

Jackie

Never heard of it, but it sounds gorgeous :d

I've never heard of it either, but it does sound lovely.

I'm going to have a cooking day on Sunday, to use up some blackberries and apples, so I might just try to make a clootie dumpling too.

Claire