When it comes to comfort food, you just can’t beat a traditional, steamed suet pudding like this one. It takes a little while to cook but is very simple to put together. Rather than the usual ...

Add the suet and rub it into the flour until you ... Reduce the heat to low and let the pudding steam for 2 hours. Top up the boiling water, if necessary, so the pan doesn’t boil dry.

Someone obviously discovered that suet added a moistness to a pudding, and preserved the shelf-life of a cake or dumpling. The fact they took longer to cook was less of an issue, but now of course ...

To the average expat Brit, steamed treacle pudding might conjure memories—nightmares, really—of morose school lunches ending tragically with a heavy suet-laden thing covered in lumpy custard.

Steak pudding is a hearty traditional British main dish. A simple stew is encased in beautiful pastry which is steamed and served with gravy, and peas.