locale: Surrey
10 posts in this collection
- Churdle
A type of pasty made by piling a circle of paste with a chopped mixture of cooked liver, bacon, and herbs (sometimes with apple or mushrooms) topped with cheese...
- Dorking Fowl
A distinctive breed of chicken, compact with a very plump breast, said to carry more meat in proportion to its size than any other fowl, and the curious feature...
- Guildford Manchets
Flaked-paste bread rolls, glazed. Known from 'Old Surrey Receipts & Food for Thought' by Daphne Grimm (Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1991, ISBN 10: 0850338158) and subse...
- Maids of Honour
Individual puff pastry tarts filled with a soft confection, usually with citrus and almond flavours.
- Mushroom Pudding
Mushrooms, often with other flavours, steamed in a suet case.
- Norbury Blue
A modern blue cheese from Norbury Park farm, made with the Penicillium roqueforti fungus.
- Richmond Eel
Eel fillets in a very rich gravy, with nutmeg, parsley and sherry, either as a soup, stew or in a pie.
- Surrey Lardie Cakes (or Dough Cakes)
Fat-rich sweet white paste with yeast, sprinkled with fat and with currants and spices (caraway, mace etc), folded and rolled several times. Cut to c4ins rounds...
- Sutton Pie
Base of pressed crumb mixture of flour, butter, sugar and oats covered with thick layer of apple puree cooked with butter and citrus juice and peel, topped with...
- Wandle Stuffed Trout
Trout filled with lemon stuffing and cooked in lemon and wine. Known only from British Food Trust