jam roly poly

Ingredients

50g salted butter, cold and cut into chunks, plus extra for greasing

250g self-raising flour

 

 

 

Flour

fl-ow-er Flour is a powdery ingredient usually made from grinding wheat, maize, rye, barley or rice. As…

 

 

, plus extra for rolling

1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out

50g shredded suet

150ml milk

 

 

 

Milk

mill-k One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…

 

 

, plus a drop more if needed

 

100g/4oz raspberry or plum

 

 

 

Plum

pl-um The juiciest fruit in the stone fruit family, plums come in many different varieties, some sweet…

 

 

jam, or a mixture

custard, to serve

 

Method

1. Put a deep roasting tin onto the bottom shelf of the oven, and make sure that there’s another shelf directly above it. Pull the roasting tin out on its shelf, fill two-thirds with boiling water from the kettle, then carefully slide it back in. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Tear off a large sheet of foil and greaseproof paper (about 30 x 40cm). Sit the greaseproof on top of the foil and butter it.
2. Tip butter, flour and vanilla seeds into a food processor; pulse until the butter has disappeared. Tip into a mixing bowl. Stir through the suet, pour in the milk and work together with a cutlery knife until you get a sticky dough. You may need a drop more milk, depending on your flour.
3. Tip the dough out onto a floured surface, quickly pat together to smooth, then roll out to a square roughly 25 x 25cm. Spread the jam all over, leaving a gap along one edge, then roll up from the opposite edge. Pinch the jam-free edge into the dough where it meets, and pinch the ends roughly, too. Carefully lift onto the greased paper, join-side down (you might find a flat baking sheet helpful for this), loosely bring up the paper and foil around it, then scrunch together along the edges and ends to seal. The roly-poly will puff quite a bit during cooking so don’t wrap it tightly. Lift the parcel directly onto the rack above the tin and cook for 1 hr.
4. Let the pudding sit for 5 mins before unwrapping, then carefully open the foil and paper, and thickly slice to serve.