Letter of the week
Spot a pudding
DON’T say the sensitivity editors have got to COUNTRY LIFE. Tom Parker Bowles’s celebration of the British pudding (‘The proof is in the pudding’, February 15) was a divine, mouthwateringly nostalgic affair—but what is spotted dog? Wendy Doel, Hampshire
Fear not, we have no ‘sensitivity readers’ here. Mr Parker Bowles responds: ‘Spotted dog is a long suet pudding, spotted with currants, like a Dalmatian. Spotted dick (pictured), on the other hand, is suet pastry rolled around a filling of raisins and sugar. For more information, read Mary Norwak’s ‘English Puddings’
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