Slow Cooker Scottish Cloutie Dumpling

Jump to RecipeSlow Cooker Scottish Cloutie Dumpling is an updated recipe for a delicious traditional Scottish steamed ‘pudding’ dessert. It tastes exactly as it should, retaining all the expected flavours but I make it in my slow cooker for maximum convenience.What is a Cloutie Dumpling?A Cloutie Dumpling is a sweetened fruit pudding. The mixture is put into a clean cloth that has been ‘scalded’ with boiling water and dusted generously with flour. The cloth (clout or cloot) is tied up and lowered into a pot of boiling water. My Granny’s signature dish was Cloutie Dumpling, she didn’t make Christmas Pudding, she made a Cloutie Dumpling at Christmas. It was also her go-to recipe as a birthday cake, and as it was my Dad’s favourite she would make it for his birthday. Granny would always send us home with half the dumpling. The next day my Dad would fry it in butter and cover it with caster sugar. I have to say that it is probably my favourite way to eat it.How Granny made Cloutie Dumpling...