locale: Dorset

Semi-skimmed cow's milk cheese of the Cheddar type with penicillin culture. The cheese is coated with flour and mould and ripened for 2 to 5 months, being pierc...

Open shortcrust tart, filled with confection of cream cheese, sugar, yolks, lemon, dried fruit and cream with firm-whisked egg whites. Baked.

Scone or sponge cake with high proportion of chopped or sliced apple mixed-in, cooked as a relatively thin (c2ins) slab (Hartley 1954, etc)

Shortcrust tart with filing of crab meat with cream cheese and egg, garnished. Served cold. Known only from J.Salmon

Slices of bread soaked in an egg, cream and lemon batter, fried. Served with caster sugar and quarters of orange, like pancakes. Similar to Poor Knights.

A butter-rich yeast-raised cake with spices and dried fruit, glazed with syrup.

White wheatflour dumplings with apple.

Thick soda-raised biscuits of wheatflour with golden syrup, butter and ginger. Although called 'gingerbreads' this may hark back to the very early use of the na...

Beef chunks stewed with onions, wine and sausage-meat balls. (British Food Trust, etc)

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Minced lamb and onions under a crumble of flour and butter, baked. Known only from tourist-associated publicity material since c1990.

Rabbit pieces coated in stuffing mixture and baked.

A type of chilled meat loaf.

Soda-raised tin loaf with dried fruit and sweet spices.

Yeast-raised sweet white wheatflour buns with egg and sweet spices.

Sweetened leavened bread made with butter and caraway seeds, traditionally washed down with Hot Pot or 'Cattern Bowl' - a hot spiced drink.

Lamb cooked with Worcestershire Sauce. Known from local reports and British Food Trust, etc.

Spiced rock cakes. Named after Old Harry Rocks off the coast of Swanage, part of the 'Jurassic Coast' World Heritage Site, possibly taking their name from a fam...

Rich pudding made with dried fruit and candied peel. Formerly a speciality of the 'Portland Arms' on the Isle of Portland, and several times ordered there by Ki...

A lost cheese. The name is thought to be derived from a reference to its ingredient 'raw' (ie, whole) milk.

There is little tradition of eating squid in England, and, in the few places where it is treated as a delicacy rather than just as bait for the next catch, no o...

The 'Wareham Bears' is a well known collection of teddies. A biscuit given the same name, of sweet shortcrust paste cut out in a stylized bear shape, decorated ...