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).

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.

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.

During the 18th century, the two crossed to become the more familiar plum pudding – a steamed pudding packed with the ingredients of the rapidly growing British Empire of rule and trade. The key was ...

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 ...