Bacon and Onion Pudding in the Slow Cooker?

This is how I made it for two greedy people! lol

4 oz SR Flour (plus extra for rolling out)
2 oz Suet
A little cold water to mix
1 Onion
8 Rashes of Back Bacon
1 Oxo cube mixed with a little water

Mix together the flour and suet, add a little water to make a soft dough and roll out into a circle. Line a greased pudding basin with the dough saving a quarter of this for the lid. Slice the onion and fry in a little oil, cut up the bacon into small pieces, add to the onions until softened. Transfer this into the pudding basin and add a little of the oxo gravy. You need to leave enough room for the dough to rise. Roll out the remainder of the dough into a round for the lid and press down firmly. Cover with the basin lid or make your own with tin foil and string placed around the basin to keep the water out. Put into a saucepan with water half way up the basin bring to the boil, and simmer for around 3.5 hours (keeping the saucepan lid on) make sure the water does not boil dry and top up when necessary.

It only has about four recipes!

I'm off to look for my old slow cooker book.

I agree with You Jalimal.
I have always found that the recipe booklets supplied with Slow Cookers are not only limited, but the recipes are often quite fancy, not what I call 'everyday recipes'. It does not encourage anyone to use a slow cooker and that it probably why so many of them are sitting in the back of a kitchen cupboard.

My mother used to make that, steamed over a saucepan. I'd love the slow cooker recipe too.

My DM used to make bacon and onion pudding

I have an old slow cooker cookbook somewhere, it may be that one. The recipes that came with the cooker are very limited.

For those new to Slow Cookers, or not sure how to adapt recipes etc, can I recommend a cheap little paperback book that is the best book about slow cooking that I have ever come across. It gives you all the basics but without the frills. It also has 100+ recipes.
It is called Slow Cooking properly explained by Dianne Page.
I bought my copy nearly 20 years ago. I learned so much from it.

I would also love this recipe please

Me too Spottysocks, the recipe would be most appreciated. Sounds like the perfect Winter recipe.
Slow Cookers are worth their weight in gold I think. One of the most versatile pieces of kitchen equipment, cheap to use, cheaper to buy now than they ever were and best of all, unlike a traditional steamer, no worries about having to top up the water ?.

I'd love to know how that works out Spottysocks.

Well, that sounds very tasty indeed, may we all join you?

I'm sure I have eaten a pudding like this at some long forgotten point.
I can almost taste it!

Me too but to cook in a saucepan, please

Me too, please. ?

I would like the recipe please, love bacon

Oh I was just going to ask for the recipe, it sounds lovely!
Then I remembered I threw my old slow cooker away in the summer.