Farmhouse Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb shin beef, finely diced
• 2 medium onions, peeled and chopped
• 1 -2 tablespoon cooking oil
• 3 medium carrots, peeled and grated
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
• 1 ounce flour
• 3/4 pint beef stock
• salt and black pepper
• 1 lb prepared suet pastry dough (see my recipe)

Recipe

• 1 mix the meat and onion together. heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the meat mixture until brown, then stir in the carrots, parsley and flour.
• 2 gradually add the stock and cook, stirring, until the mixture is thick and boiling. season to taste.
• 3 grease a 2 pint pudding basin. roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and cut a circle that will fit the bottom of the basin. place a layer of meat ove this, then add another circle of pastry, continuing to fill the basin with alternate layers, finishing with a circle of pastry.
• 4 cover the pudding with greaseproof paper and kitchen foil and seal. put in a large pot and fill pot with hot water to come up half way up the sides. put the cover on the pot and steam the pudding for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, topping up the water when necessary.
• 5 serve direct from the basin with boiled potatoes and a green vegetable.