As for the filling, I first tried with the usual raspberry jam, and then with a quick home-made plum jam (8 stoned, chopped plums, 4-5 tbsp sugar, and 25 minutes simmering).

A speciality of England, this is cooking fat made from beef or mutton that is obtained from the area around the kidney and loins. Widely used until the mid-twentieth century, it is less popular now.

The Bake Off's youngest contestant, 20-year-old Ruby Tandoh, admitted she had only eaten a suet pudding once. She chose to make her jam roly-poly with vegetarian suet.

1/2 pound chopped orange peel. 1 cup all-purpose flour. 1 cup bread crumbs. 1/8 teaspoon each of mace, cinnamon and nutmeg. 1 cup brown sugar. 4 eggs, beaten ...

“Then plum pottage, much like our beloved mince pies, took shape over the 17 th and 18 th centuries, as the recipe’s meat was gradually left out in favor of suet. It was the invention of the ...

There’s something about a British Christmas that feels just right. It is, in fact, very much our cup of tea. The holiday canon is chockablock with classic and contemporary books and movies that ...

Deliciously stodgy British pudding recipes. ... such as jam roly poly, often involve suet and I urge you to use the real stuff rather ... Roly poly is a classic pudding, but it relies on a great jam.

JAM ROLY POLY. 375 calories, 43g sugar, 14g fat (7.3g saturated) Jam and suet (traditionally raw animal fat, but now more usually made of palm oil) have few redeeming qualities.

In 1845, just two years after the publication of A Christmas Carol, cookery writer Eliza Acton offered up four plum pudding recipes in Modern Cookery for Private Families, two of which are ...

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Plum pudding! It’s one of those quintessential English customs that never made the transition to American culture.It’s possible it never made the trans-Atlantic voyage with the early settlers.