Crafts and Life

Ingredients

2 cupfuls medium oatmeal
3 oz chopped suet or dripping
2 rashers fat bacon
2 small chopped onions or leeks
Seasoning to taste
Water

Method

Line bottom of greased basin with chopped bacon.  Mix other ingredients; add water to make a fairly stiff dough.  Pour mixture over the chopped bacon.  Cover with cloth and boil for 3 hours.  Serve with gravy and green vegetables.

Any remaining pudding can be sliced and fried for breakfast.

Serves 4 (or however many you can make it stretch to!), taken from Good Eating suggestions for Wartime Dishes – Daily Telegraph Readers' Tested Recipes (Facsimile re-print 2006)