Florence White

Sussex Pond Pudding

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

‘This was given us at Chailey, Sussex, by a nursemaid in 1880 or thereabouts. It was made for me boiled in a cloth (the correct way) in 1905 by an old cottage woman in the village of Westham. In Sussex cottages, steak and kidney puddings are still (1931) boiled in a cloth only.’—H. J. GLOVER.

Method

  1. Make a good suet crust, put in some currants, and a little sugar.
  2. Divide in two and roll each piece into a rather thick round.
  3. Put into the middle of one round a ball of butter mixed with sugar, using the proportions of ½ lb. butter to