locale: Hertfordshire
5 posts in this collection
- Conference Pear
A multi-purpose, long, tapered yellow-green pear. Very juicy when ripe. Developed by Thomas Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, the odd name comes from it having won the ...
- Hertford Hard Gingerbread
A form of gingerbread biscuit, now believed lost. Possibly similar to Grasmere Gingerbread
- Hertfordshire White
A form of wheat grown in Surrey and Hertfordshire, and the bread made from this.
- Pope Lady Cakes
Small sweet cakes flavoured with almond or rose water. Formerly made as human figures, possibly with fruit decorations for eyes, etc. A tradition associated wit...
- Pork Plugger
Suet paste roll filled with chopped bacon and onion, steamed. A speciality of Bishops Stortford (Hutchins 1967, etc)