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Clootie dumpling

A clootie dumpling is a traditional Scottish pudding made with flour, breadcrumbs, dried fruit, suet, sugar and spices with some milk to bind it. Ingredients are mixed well into a dough, then wrapped up in a floured cloth, placed in a large pan of boiling water and simmered for a few hours before being lifted out and dried near the fire or in an oven. Recipes vary from region to region.

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Clootie dumpling
Clootie dumpling
TypePudding
Place of originScotland
Main ingredientsFlour, dried fruit (currants, raisins, sultanas), suet, sugar, spices, milk

A clootie dumpling is a traditional Scottish pudding made with flour, breadcrumbs, dried fruit (currants, raisins, sultanas), suet, sugar and spices with some milk to bind it. Ingredients are mixed well into a dough, then wrapped up in a floured cloth (the clootie), placed in a large pan of boiling water and simmered for a few hours before being lifted out and dried near the fire or in an oven.1 Recipes vary from region to region.

"Clootie dumpling" has also been used as a nickname for the logo of the Scottish National Party.2

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  1. Cropley, May. "Clootie Dumpling Recipe". Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  2. Chalabi, Mona (30 March 2015). "A Glossary Of U.K. Politics, From Ashcroft To Whips". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on 1 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.