locale: Midlands

Thin sponge cake made with chopped apples and grated cheese mixed-in. Served either as a cake or with custard.

Flattish bread incorporating apple pieces and chopped walnuts.

Chopped bacon and cheese mixed into a simple dough, formed into flat cakes and baked.

Small chunks of bread soaked in milk (or tea), mixed with a little fat (butter or suet), dried fruit and sweet spices, pressed into a mould and baked. Served co...

Soaked bread mixed with suet, egg, butter, sugar, sweet spices and dried fruit. Spread in a tray and baked. Sometimes with a jam layer. A form of Bread Pudding.

(Pronounced, and often written, 'Peys') Dried peas, (most traditionally Maple Peas, but now sometimes green or yellow dried peas) re-hydrated and boiled with ch...

Beef and onion (or leek) stew made very (very) thick with the addition of groats (grains, usually oats, crushed and husks removed). In the Black Country it has ...

Potato mashed with milk and cheese. Dished, topped with breadcrumbs and butter. Baked and served with pickled cabbage or beetroot.

Small (c 5ins diameter, ½ins thick) drop-scone made with strong wheat flour raised with either soda or yeast (or both) so as to give a very bubbly, crumpet-like...

Unripened, very soft, white cheese formed in a small mould, or moulded in leaves. Once commonplace, we know of only one producer, High Weald Dairy in West Susse...

A chutney made with whimberry fruits with spices such as ginger and mint, an accompaniment for roast meats.

A white cheese made in cylindrical form from full cream cow's milk with no applied pressure and forming its own crust.