Steak and Kidney Pudding

Everybody’s favourite, a rich, moist suet pastry steamed around soft, succulent and tasty chunks of beef. In this recipe I’m cooking the meat first, with carrots, mushrooms and celery included. The sweetness of the carrots really lifts the sauce.

Eliza Acton, in her Modern Cookery of 1845, calls a steak pie or pudding ‘John Bull’s Pudding’ (which s