locale: Oxfordshire

The town of Abingdon has a tradition of small bread cakes being thrown to the crowds by the mayor and town officials on certain celebration days. The bun throwi...

Double shortcrust pie filled with sliced apple, dried fruit, brown sugar and sweet spices. Described by our correspondent Alex Bray (2017) as "Absolutely delici...

Hand-sized oval puff-pastry cases well-filled with spiced currants. particularily associated with the bakers Brown's.

A cow's milk cheese, yellow and strongly flavoured, made in very thin (c1ins) rounds, known at least since Huswife 1594.

Mashed carrots, set with crumb or egg, boiled or baked as a main meal accompaniment. "And so have you a Composition for any Root-Pudding" (Evelyn 1699)

A shallow, open pastry case of hard hot-water paste filled with a pudding confection, baked. Once a speciality at the annual Deddington Fair held on November 22...

Yeast-raised sweet wheatflour cake with butter, sweet spices, dried fruit, rosewater and ambergris, frosted with egg white and sugar.

Not a type of cheese, but a cake made to celebrate a birth. 'Cheese' in the sense of being a flattened cylinder in shape.

Dough of flour, butter and water, rolled into a c¼in thick rectangle, spread with golden syrup and rolled-up. Baked in tray with milk.

Bun of slightly sweetened bread dough with fat. c3ins diameter, 1½in thick, with deep thumb depression in the centre. Receipt in 'Food in England' by Dorothy Ha...

and the Cheltenham Dripper

Round yeast-raised wheatflour buns made with butter, beer, egg, milk, sugar and raisins, flavoured with sweet spices.