Cute babe holding some dick

[MrScorpio]

[Deja Q]

1. She's not cute and she's touching a box. A big gaping blue one.

And blue means cold, so it's a frigid box!

:rofl:

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. You really are trying to get banned, aren't you?

Not one for those dramatic goodbye-DU posts, I take it.

[Ontheinternets]

3. LOL

:rofl:

[DainBramaged]

4. What the hell is spotted dick and where is it sold?

[Ontheinternets]

5. I think its like a

bread pudding.

[northzax]

9. it's a suet pudding

with Currants, which creates the 'spotted' name. It's shaped like a log, which apparently has nothing to do with the 'dick' part.

[Dangerously Amused]

16. I don't think it's sold, really. I think you just "get" it.

But I've heard there's a cure for it these days.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Hmmmm...can it be warmed up?

Looks kind of cold to me........

[Seabiscuit]

7. Yeah, and what happens if you rub it?

[SeattleGirl]

8. Hmmm.......

:evilgrin:

[texanwitch]

10. Does it expand when heated.

:popcorn:

:shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

11. Why don't you heat it up and see, texanwitch?

:9

[texanwitch]

12. Where would you buy one, I don't think HEB or Kroger's carry this

product, is it an English food.

We do have some English type food stores in Houston.

[texanwitch]

13. I checked the internet and found this:

What's the origin of "spotted dick"?
27-Aug-2002


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Dear Straight Dope:

Can you shed any light on the etymology of "Spotted Dick"? It's a British concoction, a steamed, log-shaped suet pudding studded with currants, hence the "spotted." But why the "dick"?

The first explanation that leaps to mind seems highly unlikely, but I haven't been able to find a detailed and credible account of how this venerable dessert really did get its name. The best I found in over 40 pages of Google results was someone who thinks he read somewhere that the words "dick," "dog" and "duff" when applied to puddings were all derivatives of the word "dough." OK, "duff" and "dog" seem pretty plausible linguistic mutations, but even allowing for strange regional British accents, "dick" seems a little bit of a stretch. My British parents are also at a loss to explain. --Jayne

SD Staff Dex replies:

We just tackled the origin of "Dick" as a nickname and a few other usages--a riding whip, an apron, abbreviation for "dictionary," a policeman, a declaration, and (of course), the penis.

With all these varied usages, you got a problem with "dick" being also derived from "pudding"? My sources all pretty much agree with the derivation, without being specific how. However, I can see "pudding" become "puddink" becoming "puddick" and then just "dick."

The word "dick" has appeared in any number of strange places. Around the 1840s, "dick" was used to mean a type of hard cheese; when treacle sauce was added, it became "treacle dick", and finally when currants or raisins were added (looking like little spots), the "spotted dick" was born.

The earliest recipes for spotted dick are from 1847. For non-British readers, "spotted dick" is a boiled suet pudding, with bits of dried fruit (usually raisins or currants) that (as already noted) look like little spots.

The Oxford Companion to Food comments that, strictly speaking, "spotted dick" is made by taking a flat sheet, spreading sugar and raisins on it, then rolling it up. A similar dessert is "spotted dog," a plain cylinder of suet paste with the raisins and currants and sugar stuck into it, so that the spots are visible on the outside. Both spotted dick and spotted dog were traditionally boiled (or even steamed) in a cloth, but nowadays they are usually baked.

The dessert is slightly different in Ireland. In Ireland in the late 1800s, the tradition of yeast-bread manufacture was not strong, so most breads were raised with bicarbonate of soda and an acid, rather than with yeast, and thus called soda breads. Thus, the spotted dick in Ireland is sweet soda bread, with sugar, currants, and raisins, and it's also called the spotted dog or railway cake.

--SDSTAFF Dex
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Full of imagination, those guys ...

...We just tackled the origin of "Dick" as a nickname and a few other usages--a riding whip, an apron, abbreviation for "dictionary," a policeman, a declaration, ... :eyes:

Let me check my 'dick' for 'idiosyncrasy'.

[texanwitch]

15. I found this also on the net , took a little looking.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.x

Title: Spotted Dick
Categories: desserts, english
Yield: 6 servings

8 oz self-raising flour
1 pn of salt
4 oz margarine
2 oz castor sugar (superfine)
4 oz to 6 oz sultanas (big
-raisins)
6 tb water

1) Have ready a sheet of foil or a double thickness of grease proof
paper brushed with melted margarine. 2) Make the pudding crust: Sieve
the flour and the salt. Rub in the margarine. Add the sugar and
sultanas. Mix in the water to make a soft dough. 3) Turn out onto a
floured board and form into a roll. 4) Wrap loosely but securely in
the grease proof paper or foil. Tie or seal the ends. 5) Place in the
steamer and cover tightly. Steam for 1.1/2 to 2 hours. 6) Serve with
hot custard sauce or sprinkle with castor sugar. Variation: At stage
3: Put the mixture in a medium-sized (1.1/2 pint) pudding basin with
a round of grease proof paper in the bottom and brush all round
inside with melted margarine. Smooth the top. Cover with foil, or
double grease proof paper brushed underneath with melted margarine
and steam for 1.1/2 to 2 hours. Serve with hot Custard sauce or
sprinkle with castor sugar.

Shared by Sylvia Mease (Cookie Lady)

RECIPE CLIPPED by Joan Johnson
Re-Posted by Annette Johnsen 3-08-95

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