locale: Warwickshire
7 posts in this collection
- Berkswell Cheese
A Ewe's milk cheese formed in woven baskets to make flattish large rounds with curved edges and a distinctive basket mottling on the rind. Pale orange colour, f...
- Coventry Godcakes
Baked puff pastry pasty containing sweet mincemeat. Folded into a triangular shape, glazed, marked with three slits or lines on the top and sprinkled with sugar...
- Crayfish and Bacon
The combination of crayfish with bacon seems to be a Warwickshire speciality, occurring in various forms including a bacon and crayfish egg pie and here as a ch...
- Dumpsie Dearie
Jam of apples, pears and plums with sweet spices, usually ginger, sometimes with lemon. Widely available commercially.
- Leamingtons
Small sponge cakes with fruit, peel and lemon flavours, cooked in a distinctive 'obround' mould.
- Warwickshire Pork Pie
Alternate layers of salted lean and fat pork in raised hot-water pastry (Mrs.B)
- Warwickshire Stew
Beef stew with vegetables, flavoured with parsley and garlic. May include carrot, and onion chunks plus tomato and (in some versions) mushrooms.