Elma’s Clootie Dumpling

Elma Littlejohn started baking and cooking when she was six years old after she received a baking set from Santa. Her mother didn’t bake, so Elma was delighted that her jam tarts and Victoria sponge baked in a paraffin-heated oven turned out so well. Years later her mother-in-law taught her how to make a clootie dumpling and Elma became heir to the family recipe that had been handed down through the generations. When she and her mother-in-law entered their clootie dumplings into competition