If you've watched my channel much at all, you'll know that one of my favorite rocks
is the Puddingstone
so have you ever wondered how this rock gets it's name?
well let me tell you
the English settlers came here and they found these rocks, and they thought that
they looked like an English suet pudding with berries
so, I've never had an English suet pudding with berries, I've had Jell-O brand pudding
I've had the instant kind, I've had the kind you cook
I've even had bread pudding, but I've never had suet pudding
so today, I thought I'd try to make suet pudding and see if it actually
looks like a Puddingstone
here are my ingredients, I have flour, sugar, baking powder, a little bit
of salt
supposed to use dried currants
but we are currently out of currants, so I'm using cranberries, prunes, and cherries
and then, there's my suet. I went to the butcher yesterday and I asked for suet
and he actually asked me what kind of suet, he said "would you like kidney suet?"
and I wasn't really sure, it sounded sort of like a suggestion, so I just said yes
so that is the fat that surrounds the kidney of a cow
and I'm going to eat it
we have milk
the zest of a lemon
and some vanilla extract
okay, the next thing the recipe says to do is to mix these five ingredients
in a food processor
but our food processor is just this little tiny thing
so
I'm going to improvise and use a bowl
and a mixer
and hopefully that gets the job done
I should mention, I'm not a professional chef, I'm just playing one today on YouTube
mmmm
(mixer whirring)
now I just need to add in the other ingredients
so there's my vanilla
then we just mix them all up
alright, at this point I have a little problem, I'm supposed to put this in a
pudding mold
from the picture that I saw on the recipe on the internet
that's a metal container with a lid that
clamps on
and I tried to find one of those at a store in town here and couldn't find anything, so
I'm going to go with this pyrex measuring cup
it's supposed to be greased, I already greased it, and I'm just hoping this all
fits in there
this is approximately the shape that the other thing was
and that should fit fine
alright, since I don't have a lid
I'm just going to go with tin foil on the top of it
there, good enough
you can't see down in there, but I've got some metal cookie cutters on the bottom
there, the whole bottom's covered with cookie cutters
that's to keep this up off the bottom of the pot, and the boiling water's
supposed to come up like halfway up this
pudding mold, we're calling it
figure out how to get it in there without hurting myself
alright, so that's about halfway up
I'm going to cover it
and it needs to cook for 3-4 hours, and I guess I can stick a skewer in through
the top of the tinfoil and see if anything sticks on it, and I lower it to a simmer
and I'll come back and check it in 3 hours
well, what do you think?
um
it's not exactly the same
but I guess that's kind of good
now in it's defense, a lot of puddingstones have more of a beige-y tan colored matrix
this one's pretty grey
it is
it's got the spots
they're vaguely the right colors
I can't say that I was super excited about this whole project, you know, the idea of
fat that surrounds an organ that filters out waste and makes urine just doesn't
sound appetizing, but
I guess people cook with lard and stuff
I think it's going to be delicious
I'm not one of them
you know what that, that Drummond Island fudge store makes this really awesome
Puddingstone fudge that you brought home one time
that is good
why don't you make that
it looked right, and it tasted awesome
yeah, we got the big stone countertop they make fudge on, so
-could just lay it out here -yeah, so I think that should
that should be your next project, but I'm willing to try this
-alright -we'll see how it goes
we cooked it for the full four hours, don't know if it's completely done or not
I made this custard sauce, that I think was supposed to be thicker than this, but
it's custard soup? So we're just going to go with it
I'm better at making rock stuff than this, alright, slabbing the puddingstone
it's kind of jiggly
it's kind of falling apart
I really don't know if this is done
okay, get your plate over here
doesn't look raw or anything
it kind of does
-just going to go at it like this -that's the best we can hope for
it doesn't look raw
-alright -at least, you know, when you cut it you
can kind of see the
colors come to life a little bit more
alright, some sauce
some soup
just a little?
sure
alright
let's dig in
I'll let you go first
see if I drop over or not?
it's actually pretty good, give it a try
is it
now we're eating dessert before we've had dinner, that's kind of
-it's okay -breaking the rule here for your fans
can't eat your pudding before you eat your meat?
to quote Pink Floyd
I like it
kind of fell apart when I cut it, but
tastes good
yeah
doesn't taste like beef fat
no
alright
-it tastes pretty good -yeah!
well, I think we'll wrap that up here, so
stay tuned and I'll show you some Puddingstone collecting videos here!