Steps to Prepare Perfect Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding #mycookbook

Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding #mycookbook.

You can cook Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding #mycookbook using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding #mycookbook

1. You need 8 oz of Self raising flour.
2. Prepare 4 oz of suet, either veg or beef.
3. You need 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
4. Prepare half of a pack of dry-cure smoked, streaky bacon or any bacon you have handy.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of dried mixed herbs or Thyme.
6. You need 2 of small or 1 large onion, finely chopped.
7. You need A few of fresh Sage leaves or 1/2 tsp dried Sage.
8. Prepare of Vegetable oil.
9. It's of Butter for greasing.
10. You need of Water for binding.
11. It's of Salt and Pepper, preferably White Pepper.
12. Prepare of Pudding bowl, greaseproof paper, string, steamer.

Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding #mycookbook step by step

1. Grease your bowl with butter. Set aside.
2. Dry fry the bacon in a hot frying pan until crisp. Turn to scrip the other side. Drain on kitchen paper and chop into fairly small pieces. Set aside..
3. Sauté the finely chopped onion with the Sage leaves or dried Sage in vegetable oil until translucent and lightly browned. Take off of the heat and remove to a plate to cool..
4. Mix the flour, 1/2 tsp salt, baking powder and suet in a bowl..
5. Add the onion and Bacon to the flour mixture and stir together..
6. Bind the mixture with enough cold water to bring together to form a soft dough. Boil the kettle..
7. Place the pudding into the buttered pudding bowl and cover with a large sheet of greaseproof or baking parchment with a pleat in the middle to allow for expansion and tie with string to form a seal around the edge of the bowl. Fold the overhanging paper onto the top of the bowl to keep it out of the way..
8. Pour boiling water into the steamer and place pudding bowl in top of the steamer. Steam for 2 hours, regularly checking and topping up with boiling water to avoid the pan boiling dry..
9. I served my pudding with an onion gravy made from a sliced onion, sautéed until browned in a gravy made from good old Bisto! (Guilty secret) I also added a medley of green veg, but you can use whatever veg you have handy. Not the best photo, but definitely one of my most favourite dinners from my childhood..