locale: Shropshire

Whole apple, peeled, cored and filled with honey, butter and sweet spices. Wrapped in circle of paste crimped around the top to give a crown-like appearance. Ba...

White beans and boiled bacon chopped up together, the beans being blank and the meat the prize. Known from 'A Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English' by ...

Small yeast-raised white bread buns, enriched with butter and egg, glazed.

Soda-raised wheatflour bread with carraway seeds, traditionally made for Good Friday and, presumably, raised without yeast to conform with the Jewish tradition ...

Name for any of a variety of small, sweet, sponge puddings baked or steamed in an individual mould and turned out.

Pie filled with bacon and apple, often also with onion, potato, sugar and sweet spices.

Fried lamb chops in cream sauce with onions. Known as a specialty of Shropshire only from J.Salmon

Sponge cake with ginger, cinnamon, and dried fruit.

Semi-hard, slightly soda-raised biscuit slab, approximately 3ins by 4ins, scored and ridged to form 7 slim fingers. Flavoured with ginger, rum and lemon. Produc...

Leek and cabbage soup, sometimes with cheese topping.

Heavy, moist, cake made with oatmeal, treacle and ginger. Served as a dessert cake, or as a pudding with custard. Very widely, and most traditionally, eaten on ...

Shelled hard-boiled eggs simmered in vinegar with pepper and ginger.

A hot or cold pouring sauce based on redcurrant jelly, Worcester sauce, red wine, mustard and lemon, thickened with either flour or minced onion. Known only sin...

A Springtime Celebration Cake. Traditionally a light rich fruit cake with saffron, boiled first and then baked. Made with a central layer of marzipan, decorated...

Veal par-cooked by poaching in herb (sage, marjoram) stock, finished by roasting until brown. Served with white sauce made from the stock.

Rich sponge cake made with chopped apple and other fruit (eg. cherries) and nuts. Brown sugar sprinkled on surface before baking to give a crunchy topping.

Round, thin, dry wholewheat biscuits. Served with cheese.

Dried Hams for sale in Shrewsbury c1888

A pasteurised cow's milk cheese, formed in large rounds. Orange-white, blue-veined and firm.

Faggots well flavoured with sage and paersley, baked.

Suet paste roll filled with parsley, thyme, beaten egg, minced meat (pork and rabbit), baked.

Round flaky pastry rolled into a circle, well-filled with currants falvoured with mint.

Double-crust pie containing rabbit joints in a rich, mixed, stew often containing bacon, liver, fruit, typically apple and currants, with onion and spice-flavou...

An English Piquant Sauce sauce.

Round flattish cakes made with ground rice and white wheatflour with egg and caraway. J.Salmon and BFT assert that these were a type of Soul-Cake, distributed a...

Breadcrumbs, sugar and suet with egg yolk, citrus and brandy folded into very stiff egg whites and steamed. Served with a citrus or marmalade sauce (Walsh 1859,...

Bacon fried with liver and chopped greens.