The Great British Baking Show ™
Season:
Episode:
Challenge:
Classic Spotted Dick
Alison Hammond: "For your Technical Challenge, Prue would love you to bake a British classic spotted dick. Your spotted dick should comprise of a moist steamed suet sponge studded with currants and accompanied with a silky smooth Créme Anglaise. You have 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Paul Hollywood: "So, Prue, why have you chosen spotted dick?"
Prue Leith: "My main memory of steamed puddings are actually school dinners. We thought spotted dick was hilarious, of course, but I think done well, it's delicious."
Paul Hollywood: "What are you looking for?"
Prue Leith: "Perfectly steamed sponge, a nice golden syrup and silky custard. The bakers tend not to steam them for long enough. A steamed pudding needs to steam for at least an hour and a half, otherwise it just won't be properly baked in the middle."
(Judges taste the Spotted Dick.)
"That is lovely and crumbly."
"And yet it's got that substantial feel that only a steamed pudding has."
"And I think with the custard as well. It's fantastic."
"It's delicious."
Time Allowed for this challenge:
How the bakers performed
Dylan
Ranking
1
"The pudding's got a bit of lightness to it."
"Nice custard. Tastes good too. Yeah, that. I love that. I think that's perfect."
"It is good."
Christiaan
Ranking
3
"That looks nice and light."
"It does. But actually, I quite like the pudding."
Illyin
Ranking
5
"That's a better syrup."
"The sponge is quite soggy. It's come quite glutenous. That's really heavy and stodgy. That's a shame."
Georgie
Ranking
2
The syrup is better on this one. Again, okay. Custard's not bad.
"Sponge is lovely."
"The sponge is nice."
Gill
Ranking
4
"The sauce looks a little bit pale. This caramel needed to be a little bit darker."
"Oh, the custard has become scrambled egg."
"Scrambled egg, yeah. That is such a pity. It's a little heavy."
"It's a bit heavy and stodgy, isn't it? It's a nice flavor, though."
Sumayah
Ranking
6
"Problems with sticking to the bowl."
"The outside is really soggy."
"You can feel how gluey that is."
"It tastes floury."
"The color of that syrup is far too pale."
"It doesn't look like caramel at all. It just looks like sugar syrup."
Get recipes ...
Subscribe to our weekly recipes and culinary tips from streamed cooking shows.
