Clootie dumpling

{{Short description|A Scottish suet pudding}}

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| country = Scotland

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| type = Pudding

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| main_ingredient = Flour, dried fruit (currants, raisins, sultanas), suet, sugar, spices, milk

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}}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.{{cite web |url=http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/clootie-dumpling-recipe.html |title=Clootie Dumpling Recipe |access-date=2008-07-20 |first=May |last=Cropley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913100944/http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/clootie-dumpling-recipe.html |archive-date=2008-09-13 |url-status=dead }} Recipes vary from region to region.

"Clootie dumpling" has also been used as a nickname for the logo of the Scottish National Party.{{cite web |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-glossary-of-uk-politics-from-ashcroft-to-whips/ |title=A Glossary Of U.K. Politics, From Ashcroft To Whips |last1=Chalabi |first1=Mona |date=30 March 2015 |website=FiveThirtyEight |access-date=19 April 2015}}