and welcome to nico's kitchen's what you want wednesday today's recipe request comes in from the youtube user moni jacobs and they've asked me to make one of the world's most famous puddings spotted dick he's got a bunch of meal mondays what you want wednesdays fast food fridays what else could he share his nico's kitchen where satisfying meals are prepared so guys the first thing that we're going to do to get started on our spotted dick just into a bowl and a sifter i'm going to add in our self-raising flour now if you don't have self-raising flour just use normal flour with some baking powder added and just sift that through next i'm going to add in some bread crumbs i'm also going to be adding in some sugar i'm also going to be adding in some mixed dried fruit and in here are some sultanas some currants some raisins some mixed peel and some glace cherries and just add them straight in and now for our liquid mixture guys i'm going to be adding in some milk and i've just put an egg into the milk as well and just mix that up now guys the next part is where my recipe differs a lot from traditional spotted dick recipes and this is the one that i grew up with as a kid instead of putting suet which is a beef lard i'm just putting in a pork lard and that's just the way i've grown up with it so if you want to use the suet which comes in almost like grated pellets then you can find that in your supermarket and use them if you want to because that is the traditional way however here i'm using some melted lard which is essentially pork fat and just add that straight in it's not a lot but it just keeps everything really really moist when we steam our pudding and just grab a spoon and just mix all those ingredients together and guys this is what you're after just like a dough now guys i've just got some ramekins here and i've buttered them on the outside so the mixture doesn't stick just grab some of the mixture and put it straight in the ramekin and just press it down lightly and you want to come up about that way because it will rise a little as well now guys there's a couple of ways you can do this i used to do this in the oven on a baking tray and i used to put the ramekins on a baking tray and fill up the water halfway but now we've got these steamers and they've been around for many many years it is the best way of doing it so i've got some water just in the bottom of the pan i've got the steamer on the top and i'm going to place our ramekins inside the steamer just like that now guys you want to put the lid on and you want to steam these for about 30 to 35 minutes if you were doing it in the oven on a baking tray with the water you would want to cook these for about an hour so guys i've just turned the heat off our steamer i'm going to lift the lid and you can see there it's nice and spongy and that's what you're after with your spotted dick you want some resistance as you push it so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to grab a knife run it around the edge and we're going to tip out our spotted deck into a bowl so guys it wouldn't be a spotted dick without some custard seed with it so just around the edges i'm just going to pour in some custard so there you have it guys my version of a spotted dick and i know it's not the traditional in a sense like i said before it's just my interpretation of it and the way that i watch people cook it for me when i was a kid so while it's still warm of course we want to eat it up so let's get stuck in and oh yeah the spoon should just go straight through it even though it's a steamed pudding it should still be nice and light get some of that custard and let's get stuck in it really takes me back to when i was a kid and i had my mum and my nana make this for me just beautiful it really really is and just soul food comfort food at its very best if you'd like to have some spotted dick in your mouth give this one a go guys all the ingredients are below so check it out and do give it a go jokes aside and the name aside uh it is a fantastic dish and it really is very tasty so all the ingredients are below like i said you guys take care and i will see you this friday for fast food friday so until then take care you