
Spotted dick is a popular British cylindrical pudding, made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants and/or raisins) and often served with custard.
It is made from a flat sheet of suet pastry sprinkled with dried fruit, which is then rolled up into a circular pudding.
The dish is first attested in Alexis Soyer's The modern Housewife or ménagère, published in 1849, in which he described a recipe for "Plum Bolster, or Spotted Dick—Roll out two pounds of paste ... have some Smyrna raisins well washed...". The Pall Mall Gazette reported in 1892 that "the Kilburn Sisters ... daily satisfied hundreds...