locale: Cheshire

Name for any of a variety of small, sweet, sponge puddings baked or steamed in an individual mould and turned out.

Brawn of rabbit meat and trotters, boiled until fallen, with spices.

A pasteurised cow's milk cheese, made with added Lactobacilli, set with rennet and the curds milled before moulding into large rounds. Matured up to 12 months. ...

Minced lamb and onions under a crumble of flour, butter and cheese, baked.

Open shortcrust pie of cooked onions in savoury custard. This 'Cheshire' version is distinctive in that it has no potato, meat or cheese - the principal flavour...

Double-crust puff pastry pie containing pork with apples, butter and sweet spices (Glasse 1747, etc). Bradley 1728 adds diced potato.

The Cheshire version of Potted Cheese is distinctive through the addition of sweet spices and Madeira, pressed into small pots and covered with boiled butter.

Flour, eggs and cream, baked to set, strewn with sugar and browned (Walsh 1859).

White stock (veal, chicken, pork etc.) with diced potato, leek carrot and oatmeal. Served with a sprinkling of Cheshire cheese.

Small, soft, yeast-raised round buns made with butter, condensed milk and egg, glazed with weak sugar syrup and baked. Known at least since 'Cassell's dictionar...

Double-crust tray-bake pie filled with softened cake crumb with fruit and spices.

Pastry case filled with confection of almonds, sugar, egg and lemon, topped with stiff egg-white, baked. A precursor to Lemon Meringue Pie

The name 'Chester Pudding' has occasionally been applied to a number of different steamed sponge puddings, including those given here, though the Lemon Tart ver...

Shortcrust base filled with thin layer of jam-like custard made from egg, ground almonds, sugar and butter, topped with meringue.

An old North-West name for Turnip Greens, known from the 1882 'Lancashire Glossary' and Holland's 1884 'Words of the County of Chester' and Wright 1857.

Double-crust pie filled with bacon, apples, sugar and sage.

Like many everyday articles 'fried cakes' appear, from news reports, to have been so commonplace, especially from the North West counties in the 19thCent, that ...

Large circle of shortcrust pastry folded over dried fruit and rolled until the fruit visible through. Sugared and baked. Well-known from local reports in Lancas...

A deep-dish single or double-crust pie with a filling of rib meat from baconised pork.