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By Gary Maclean
Published 2022
I always remember my mum telling me stories of her mum’s – my Nana’s – clootie dumpling. Two things stuck out for me with this recipe: the first was that she added thruppenny bits (old 12-sided three penny coins) to the recipe. The idea was that each of the kids would receive a bit of cash in their slice of the pudding. I believe that the clootie dumpling could be filled with lots of different coins or charms all having a meaning to the finder. Second, my Nana did not work with a recipe – t