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<\/a><\/p>\nHere’s their version Spotted Dick- although they also call it “English Jam Bag Pudding”<\/p>\n
I think that when you have an artistic bent, anything is fair game and baking is exciting. Baked goods\u00a0 have the added cachet of being forbidden in the age of size zero for obvious reasons but you know that everyone wants them. Baking is a complicated and detailed process that requires assembling all manner of toys and gadgets, some\u00a0 bright and colorful\u00a0 and others heavy and traditional. If you’re lucky, you may have inherited a bowl, utensils or old linens from the women in your family history. Here are some treasures that I managed to salvage during the great move of ’09 from Montreal to Key West.<\/p>\n These were from my English grandmother. They are heavy and have incredible presence. I love using them for heavy cakes, etc.<\/p>\n I am considering making every recipe in this box, like what happened in the Julia Childs movie. The difference is that these recipes will tell me what we really ate because they were important enough to be hand written and collected.<\/p>\n I always make at least one fruitcake in this pan and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n Here are two of my Hungarian grandmother’s aprons. I am so glad I rescued them. I have another 20 or so in a locker. She was a fantastic needlewoman. She sewed and embroidered and crocheted and by all accounts was a fabulous gardener and\u00a0 cook.<\/p>\n Only the bowl was used in my risque dive into the controversial world of the Spotted Dick. I began with asking myself, “What exactly is Spotted Dick? Is it a joke?\u00a0 So I asked a few people and here’s what I got:<\/p>\n Me: A kind of fish – maybe like a speckled trout\/ WRONG<\/p>\n Katie: A deer or otherwise spotted prancing creature\/WRONG<\/p>\n Nick: It’s a kind of pudding that my mother used to make\/RIGHT<\/p>\n What! Well Nick is <\/em>English and his mom did actually cook and bake.\u00a0 Spotted Dick is a much maligned dish used (mostly by Americans) to illustrate the eccentricities of the British as well as their penchant for dull and downright scary cuisine. So I looked up the provenance of this dish and most agree that ‘dick’ comes from pudding =ding=dish=dick. However, some think that ‘dick’ comes from a corruption of dough.\u00a0 The spotted part comes from the currents found in traditional versions. It’s called a pudding because custard is poured over it before serving.\u00a0 As for the controversy (the best part) here’s an article that explains it far better that I can.<\/p>\n BBC news<\/A><\/p>\n The good news is that is has reverted to it’s original name after being called “Spotted Richard” for a very short time.<\/p>\n So here’s how my Spotted Dick turned out.<\/p>\n Now I have to turn it over . . .<\/p>\n Yay! Success! But it looks more like Striped Dick to me.<\/p>\n Spotted Dick is not sliced. It is pulled apart, much like the American version called Monkey Bread.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>They are still made today by Greens. I imagine that they were a staple of most British households for the middle part of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n