Pork and Onion Dumpling

Name: Pork and Onion Dumpling
Total time: 4 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: salt ½ small teaspoonful; about 1½ gills of cold water (all this is for the crust). To fill it: pork 2 lb.; Flour ¾ lb.; suet 6 oz.; pepper and salt to season; pepper and salt to season; about 1½ gills of cold water (all this is for the crust). To fill it: pork 2 lb.; onions 1½ lb.; water 1 gill.; water 1 gill.

A Suffolk Recipe (Southwold)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
4 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

To make a good family dumpling make a crust as follows, and line a large pudding basin with it:

Ingredients

Flour ¾ lb.
suet 6 oz.
salt

Europe
United Kingdom
Savoury

Method

Grease basin.
Make and roll out erust.
Line basin, reserving a piece of the suet pastry to cover the top.
Cut the pork into pieces, also the onions.
Arrange them in the crust-lined basin in alternate layers seasoning each.
When full add a gill of water.
Put crust on top.
Cover with gre