Jam Roly-Poly

A classic British jam-filled steamed pudding with a soft suet pastry and sweet raspberry jam, served warm with custard — comforting and nostalgic.

Servings
4
Difficulty
Easy
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Jam Roly-Poly

Ingredients

Main

  • 50 g butter
  • 250 g self-raising flour
  • 1 pcs vanilla (small pod, seeds)
  • 50 g suet
  • 150 ml milk
  • 100 g raspberry jam
  • custard (to serve)

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and place a deep roasting tin two shelves below the rack you will use, fill two-thirds with boiling water and keep hot.
  • Tear a large sheet of foil and a sheet of greaseproof paper (~30x40cm), greaseproof on top of foil and butter the paper.
  • Combine butter, flour and vanilla seeds in a food processor and pulse until butter is disappeared, or rub together by hand, then transfer to a bowl.
  • Stir in suet and pour in milk, work with a knife to form a sticky dough, adding a little more milk if needed.
  • Turn dough onto a floured surface, pat and roll to a roughly 25x25cm square.
  • Spread jam over the dough leaving a gap along one edge, then roll up from the opposite edge.
  • Pinch the jam-free edge to seal and pinch the ends; place seam-side down on the greased paper.
  • Loosely bring up paper and foil around the roll and scrunch edges to seal (do not wrap tightly).
  • Place the parcel on the rack above the hot roasting tin and cook for 1 hour.
  • Let sit 5 minutes before unwrapping, then open and thickly slice to serve with custard.