Spotted Dicks that taste like M&S

Have you read the ingredients list? It may have a clue.

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My mum used to make them and called them suet puddings with either jam ( roly-poly ) or the dried fruit ( spotted dick )
I'd say that the main ingredient is suet ( Atora ) so I guess if you look for Atora recipes you'll find the puds.

Delicious and easy to make.

I'm not very techie so not sure if this will work. If you copy this link into your browser it brings up a pic of the ingredients in the puds.

www.marksandspencerfoodhall.co.uk/nutrition/4e83148c-764f-48e3-9838-6e6df7ceaea7--1493291571

Surprised to see the ingredients include dried dill!

Great help - thanks to all! Have found a basic atora recipe for spotted dick on the BBC Food website and seeing the list of ingredients (thanks for that Vonners - have saved for shopping) I am wondering if the distinctive flavour comes from the fennel. Will give the recipe a go with added fennel and see what they turn out like.

Thanks for responses, hugely appreciated.

The think spotted dick has always been a very plain and simple pudding what’s with all those ingredients?
Flour,suet pinch of salt a little sugar and dried fruit that’s it.

Watching with interest Valski. Let us know the result.

Will do!

It sounds a bit spicy, totally unlike the ones my mum used to make, boiled in an old piece of sheet!

I love your description Jalima! ?

The old sheets were used for all kinds of purposes Bellanonna!! and had been boiled and boiled beforehand (my mother was very thorough ).
Used for making puddings, bandages on knees and torn into strips to put in my hair to make ringlets!

Jalima, how posh was that using sheet ? My mum used a sleeve of one of my dad's old shirts for boiling puddings ( roly-poly's ) and also for large cod's roes !

That was after the sheets had been 'sides to middle' and thoroughly worn out!!

They were better for boiling puddings once they had thinned down well. My mother used to make a bacon and onion roly-poly (boiled in a bit of sheet, of course)

Not long after I was born, war was declared, and my father was posted to be trained up to go abroad. He was in the regular army, but too young (at under 25) to get a married quarter for his wife and child, so rather than remain alone in expensive digs with a young baby, my mum took me to live with her parents. Her mother had a present for her - "I've cut up these old sheets for nappies for the baby" Granny discovered soon afterwards that she hadn't enough sheets for all the beds, so Mum had to buy her some. The thin and non-absorbent extra nappies acquired at the price of new sheets were NOT a bargain.

They didn't have plastic pants in those days either!