Despite the giggle factor involved in the name, Spotted Dick is a pudding. It contains bits of dried fruit that make it appear spotted. The dick part comes from the German word for thick.
Another answer:
Spotted comes from the appearance of the fruit, and Dick comes from it being Dick Turpin's favorite pudding.
Faggots and spotted dick are traditional foods eaten in England, faggots also known as savoury ducks are similar to meat balls, they made from minced pork liver, heart and lungs, seasoning and rusk, served with mushy peas and gravy. Spotted dick is a suet based sponge pudding with sultanas and currents and steamed, served with custard.
Sponge pudding
The lesser spotted dick. i hope that helps. it tends to be quite a rarely seen species, hence the name lesser spotted dick
Spotted dick
the recipe for spotted and dick is 300g/10OZ Plain Flour 10g/2TSP Baking Powder 150g/5OZ Shredded Suet 75g/ 3OZ Caster Sugar 110g/ 4OZ Currants 1 Lemon , Zest only 200ml/fl OZ milk Butter, For Greasing
Fish & Chips, Steak & Kidney Pie, Toad-in-a-hole, Spotted DickPlease note.There is a suet pudding which contains currents called Spotted dick, it is normally served with custard. The answer above is not an offensive answer.
Dear yellow spotted dick, Where did you put it in?
A dessert =)
cheetahs are called the spotted one because they have spots all over there body
The Atlantic Spotted Dolphin is called that because it lives in the Atlantic and the subadult, mature and physically mature adults have spots.
Captain Ahab spotted a white mass that he thought was the great white whale Moby Dick in Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick." This encounter fuels his obsession to hunt down the whale at all costs.
Yes it is really a type of pudding. It is a steamed suet pudding that has dried fruit giving it a spotted appearance and is a standard part of English meals.