Plain Suet Dumplings

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Ingredients

2 pounds of flour
1 salt-spoon of salt
1 pound of beef suet

Instructions

Sift the flour into a pan, and add the salt. Mince the beef sute very fine, and rub it into the flour. Make it into a stiff dough with a little cold water. Then roll it out an inch thick or rather more. Cut it into dumplings with the edge of a tumbler. Put them into a pot of boiling water, and let them boil an hour and a half. Send them to table hot, to eat with boiled loin of mutton, or with molasses after the meat is removed.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).

Comments

Hi my dad use to use suet to make his dumplings , and thay use to swell up like big clouds , and i dont no what to look for in the supermarket that is suet . He use to put it in his rabbit stew , and then when it was all cooked . He would place the stew and 1 large dumpling on the plate and pour golden syrup all over the dumpling .it was such a great meal I would love for my children to try it .so what do i look for in australia that is suet , thankyou fiona

Posted by Fiona Lindsay on August 27, 2008 at 09:02 PM