Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding
Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sylvia's bacon and onion pudding. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Sylvia's Bacon and Onion Pudding is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook sylvia's bacon and onion pudding using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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