To make the suet pastry, put the flour in a ... Place in the base of the pudding basin. Cover with a layer of the beef and mushroom mixture. Roll the 150g/5½oz portion into a disc large enough ...

Divide off about a quarter of the dough, to be used for the pastry lid. Dust your work surface with flour and roll out the larger piece of dough into a circle roughly 30cm/12in in diameter. Use ...

Figgy pudding is a steamed cake that usually consists of dried fruit, brown sugar, candied orange peel, eggs, breadcrumbs, warm spices like nutmeg and cloves, and suet (beef or mutton fat).

When I was a child we rendered our own beef fat down — and indeed used ... If you were to eat an undercooked suet pudding you wouldn’t become ill — unless the suet had been out of the ...