English Rasher Pudding

[LenaS]

This is probably an impossibility - but has anyone out there ever heard of 'Rasher Pudding' - my grandmother from England used to make it - oh how I would love to know how to do it - think made with suet and wrapped and boiled.....anyone out there at all knowing what I am talking about....had bacon in it - in a roll??????

[kentgirl]

Well, I love a challenge. I did some internet surfing, and came up with this recipe. Took me awhile just to figure out that a rasher is a slice of bacon! Interesting....
Anyway, this recipe is not called Rasher Pudding, but has all the ingredients you specified (and more). I'll post the link and the recipe:

Sausage and Bacon Pudding http://www.cftrust.org.uk/Recipes.html

(450g) 1 lb of Sausages
1 Dessertspoonful flour
3 Rashers of lean Bacon
Water
1 Onion
(225g) 1/2 lb of Suet Crust
1 Apple
Salt & Pepper
Pinch of dried herbs

Grease a pudding basin and get ready a pudding cloth.  Cut up the sausages into short pieces and roll the bacon.  Make suet crust and roll it out until it is large enough to line the basin, keeping back enough to cover the top.  Put in the sausages, bacon thinly sliced onion and apple, and dried herbs in layers, sprinkling a little flour and seasoning in between each.  Fill the basin three parts full with stock or water.  Moisten the edge of the suet crust and put on the top, pressing the edges well together.  Put a piece of greased paper over it, then the pudding cloth and steam over boiling water for 2½ - 3 hours.

Hope this is what you wanted.

That's an interesting recipe. What is a "Dessertspoonful". Somehow bacon and pudding just doesn't go together....is this good?

[This message has been edited by kentgirl (edited 11-12-2000).]

[LenaS]

OMG Kentgirl - you are incredible! I can't believe that a recipe would even exist - thank you so very much!!! You are a doll - that was very nice of you - thanks http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif Lena

[BernK]

A dessertspoonful is a little larger than a tablespoon. It is literally a dessert spoon.
Not as big as a soup spoon.

[sneezles]

Just a note: You'll find that English breakfast sausages and bacon are not the same as ours. The lean streaky bacon is close in looks but is not cured the same way and so the recipe may not taste the same as it would in England. The breakfast sausage is difficult to describe without totally confusing you but take my word they are really different.