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The ''[[Pall Mall Gazette]]'' reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn Sisters{{nbsp}}[...] daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick".<ref name="Ayto">{{cite book|last=Ayto|first=John|title=The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink|page=349|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199640249|year=2012}}</ref>
The ''[[Pall Mall Gazette]]'' reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn Sisters{{nbsp}}[...] daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick".<ref name="Ayto">{{cite book|last=Ayto|first=John|title=The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink|page=349|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199640249|year=2012}}</ref>
The name has long been a source of amusement and [[double entendre]]s; reportedly restaurant staff in the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]] decided to rename it "Spotted Richard" so it was "less likely to cause a stir".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spotted Dick 'renamed Spotted Richard' to spare blushes in parliament|url=https://news.sky.com/story/spotted-dick-renamed-spotted-richard-to-spare-blushes-in-parliament-11405421|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Sky News|language=en}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 15:27, 30 October 2025

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Spotted dick is a traditional British steamed pudding, historically made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants or raisins) and often served with custard.

Non-traditional variants include recipes that replace suet with other fats (such as butter), or that include eggs to make something similar to a sponge pudding or cake.[1]

Etymology

Spotted is a reference to the dried fruit in the pudding (which resembles spots).[2] The word dick refers to pudding. In late 19th century Huddersfield, for instance, a glossary of local terms stated: "Dick, plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick."[3] This sense of dick may be related to the word dough.[4] In the variant name spotted dog, dog is a variant form of dough.[5]

History

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Spotted dick and custard

The dish is first attested in Alexis Soyer's The Modern Housewife or, Ménagère, published in 1849,[6] in which he described a recipe for "Plum Bolster, or Spotted DickTemplate:SndRoll out two pounds of pasteScript error: No such module "String".[...] have some Smyrna raisins well washed".[7]

The name "spotted dog" first appeared in 1855, in C.M. Smith's "Working-men's Way in the World" where it was described as a "very marly species of plum-pudding". This name, along with "railway cake", is most common in Ireland where it is made more similar to a soda bread loaf with the addition of currants.[2]

The Pall Mall Gazette reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn SistersScript error: No such module "String".[...] daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick".[3]

See also

References

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Bibliography

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External links

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