- Boston Fruit Bread
Yeast-raised tin loaf made with dried fruit and peel and a significant proportion of dripping
- Boston Pudding
Open puff-paste tart filled with apple pieces with spices and sugar, set with egg, baked.
- Carlin Peas or Brown Badgers
Black peas (Maple Peas or Pigeon Peas), boiled and then lightly fried in butter or beef fat, well seasoned. Eaten, or given away, a tradition during Lent, parti...
- Cree'd Wheat
Grains, usually frumenty wheat, or occasionally rice or oats stewed very slowly until all the available water is absorbed. Usually then enriched with, for insta...
- Frumenty - Lincolnshire Version
Frumenty wheat cooked with, milk, raisins, sugar, nutmeg. Known from 'Good Things in England' by Florence White (White 1932)
- Good King Henry, or Mercury, or Pap-Wort
A tall herb (Chenopodium bonus-henricus), the leaves used like spinach.
- Grantham Whetstones
Paste made of frothed egg whites, sugar, flour and caraway seeds with saltpetre (E252), rolled very thin and baked. This was a 'biscuit for travellers' presumab...
- Grantham White Gingerbread
Round, pale, domed biscuits made with white wheat flour, egg, white sugar and slightly raised with soda. Distinctively 'white' from being sweetened with white s...
- Hunter's Beef
A beef round dry pickled in saltpetre [E252], sugar and spices, then baked (Mrs.B, White 1932)
- Kattern Cake
Sweetened leavened bread made with butter and caraway seeds, traditionally washed down with Hot Pot or 'Cattern Bowl' - a hot spiced drink.
- Lincolnshire Haslet
Lean pork mince with breadcrumbs and onion, flavoured with sage. Baked as a loaf and served cold.
- Lincolnshire Plum Bread
Soda raised cake made with brown sugar and dried fruit soaked in tea. Often served with cheese.
- Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese
Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard unpasteurised cow's milk cheese produced by F.W Read & Sons Ltd of Alford. It has collected a remarkable number of awards, includ...
- Loblolly
A general name for any thick stew, first recorded in 1597. Possibly derived from Yorkshire dialect 'lob', 'to bubble up while boiling, or to eat or drink up noi...
- Stuffed Chine
The meat, with fat and skin, from alongside a pig's spine, salted and part-dried, then slashed deeply and the cuts filled with a herb mixture - usually parsley,...