Cloutie Dumpling

Name: Cloutie Dumpling
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Flour and caster sugar, to sprinkle; About 300 ml full-cream milk; Flour and caster sugar, to sprinkle; 300 g mixed dried fruit(sultanas, currants, raisins); 2 tbsp black treacle; 300 g mixed dried fruit(sultanas, currants, raisins); 300 g mixed dried fruit(sultanas, currants, raisins); 125 g light muscovado sugar; 300 g mixed dried fruit(sultanas, currants, raisins); 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 tsp mixed spice; 150 g fresh brown breadcrumbs; 200 g shredded suet; 200 g self-raising flour, sifted

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Scotland’s Islands

By Sue Lawrence

Published 2019

About

Ingredients

200 g self-raising flour, sifted
150 g fresh brown breadcrumbs
200

Europe
United Kingdom
Starter
Scotland

Method

Mix the first 9 ingredients together in a bowl with a pinch of salt, adding a little more milk if necessary to get the correct consistency: you want a stiff yet dropping consistency.

Dip a large pudding cloth (or large tea-towel) into boiling water to scald, drain well using rubber gloves to squeeze it dry, and lay it out flat on a board. Sprinkle with flour and then sugar (I use my flo