Bacon and onion pudding.
You can cook Bacon and onion pudding using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Bacon and onion pudding
- Prepare 8 oz of self raising flour.
- You need pinch of salt.
- You need 4 oz of shredded suet.
- You need 8 oz of bacon.
- Prepare 1 of onion, chopped (red or white).
- It's 5 tbsp of gravy.
Bacon and onion pudding step by step
- Fry bacon until cooked, but not crisp, drain and cut into small pieces. Place in bowl..
- Fry onion in bacon fat until transparent. Drain and add to bacon, mix in enough gravy to moisten through..
- Sift flour Into a bowl, add suet and salt, stir with a table knife, gradually add approximately 5 fluid ounces cold water to make a soft but firm dough..
- Grease a 2 pint pudding basin, take 2/3 of the dough and roll out on floured surface to fit basin, line basin. (To make it easier to turn out you can place a circle of buttered greaseproof paper in bottom of basin).
- Place bacon mixture in lined bowl..
- Roll remaining dough into circle to fit top of pudding, place on top of mixture. Cover with circle of buttered greaseproof paper..
- Cover top of basin with double layer of foil, pleating the foil so the pudding can rise. Tie on with string..
- Put 2 pints of boiling water in a pressure cooker, place pudding on trivet, put on lid and return to boil, reduce heat and steam for 30 minutes, add 5 lb valve weight and cook for further 30 minutes,.
- Remove from heat and allow pressure to equalise..
- Turn pudding onto plate and cut into 4..
- Serve with gravy and potatoes and vegetables of choice.
