Call for recipe assistance

[FierceKitty]

English people with secret knowledge of your glorious past: I have in the distant way-back-when eaten of a delicious pudding made with raspberry jam, suet, dark sugar, and I know not what else. Steamed, rich, dark, and achingly "I know I'll regret this tomorrow, but give me a third helping with double cream" - ish. The cook was English and set very high standards about what he ate, but I've lost contact with him.

Any ideas? I seem to remember the name "Guards' Pudding", but Google hasn't helped much.

[Matt J]

That's your standard steam pudding - jam or treacle (actually gold syrup).

Bog standard pud of every English household.

Google search, loads of recipes some with suet or more likely now a days standard sponge mix

[FierceKitty]

This one was really special. I've eaten many a suet pudding that one struggled to force down one's throat.

[Ithoriel]

Alternatively, there is jam roly-poly which I haven't made in ages. Possibly just as well since there's only me to eat it and I tend to serve it with Cornish clotted cream!

I use Nigella's jam roly-poly recipe

"Nigella's jam roly-poly pudding is complete comfort food. It's baked to make cooking a little less challenging, leaving you with a slightly crisp edge rather than complete steamy stodge."

[FierceKitty]

Hast thou a recipe, prithee?

[Last Hussar]

Bog standard pud of every English household.

Sadly, I doubt it, nowadays.

[Matt J]

I'm still in the 1980's and refuse to move on...

[Gwydion]

You are all weak and being led astray:

Go to:

Guards Pudding

And all shall be revealed.
(don't be put off by the lack of flour - something wonderful happens in the steaming process too spectacular to be revealed in mere words).

[Ithoriel]

Two and a half hours to cook! I can't wait that long

Nigella's Jam Roly-Poly

[Orcs]

You are all weak and being led astray:

Go to:

Guards Pudding

And all shall be revealed.
(don't be put off by the lack of flour - something wonderful happens in the steaming process too spectacular to be revealed in mere words).

( I can resist anything except temptation. and possibly anything shiny)

Two and a half hours to cook! I can't wait that long

Nigella's Jam Roly-Poly

Your are both the spawn of the devil himself.  I am diabetic but love a steamed pudding, and you do this to me!.   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You know you'er going to even if it's going to kill you 

[FierceKitty]

You are all weak and being led astray:

Go to:

Guards Pudding

And all shall be revealed.
(don't be put off by the lack of flour - something wonderful happens in the steaming process too spectacular to be revealed in mere words).

Your words haunt me....