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GLOUCESTERSHIRE

CHEESE-AND-ALE

Ingredients : -
8 ounces Gloucester Cheese; a little mustard; ½ ( half ) a pint ale; brown bread.


Cut some Gloucester cheese into thin flakes. Place in a fire-proof dish. Spread some mustard over the cheese and cover with ale. Cook in the oven until the cheese is dissolved. Make some toast with thick slices of brown bread and moisten with hot ale. Pour the cheese over the toast and serve very hot.


DOUBLE GLOUCESTER CHEESE
Double Gloucester is the shape of a grindstone with rounded edges. Its texture is crumbly, hard and close. It takes about 6 months to mature, Double Gloucester has a mellow flavour. Single Gloucester or Gloucester is less known; it is soft and has an open texture.


GINGERBREAD HUSBANDS
Figures of men made of gingerbread pressed into wooden moulds, baked and gilded.


GLOUCESTER'S ROYAL PIE
This pie was made with lampreys caught in the Severn. It was decorated with gilt ornaments and sent annually to the King by the Corporation of Gloucester. A pie weighing 20 lb. was sent to Queen Victoria, decorated with truffles and crayfish on gold skewers, and aspic jelly. On the top was a gold crown and sceptre and at the base four golden lions, and a banner with the Gloucester coat of arms.


NEWENT APPLE COBS
These are apple dumplings.

HAMPSHIRE

ISLE OF WIGHT DOUGHNUTS

Ingredients : -
2 ounces butter; 1 lb. flour; ½ ( half ) ounce yeast; 2 eggs; lard; 1 oz castor sugar; raspberry jam; 1½ ( one & half ) gills of warm milk; pinch of salt.


Mix flour, salt and sugar and divide into two basins. Rub butter into one, yeast and milk into the other. Let batter mixture rise for
½ ( half ) an hour, then mix both together and beat in the eggs. Let the batter stand for an hour to rise. Knead and make into 24 round balls, make a hole and put a little jam in the centre of each. Close up securely. Leave to stand for a little on a floured tin to prove. Drop into a deep bath of boiling fat and fry until a golden brown; then roll in castor Sugar.


FRIAR'S OMELETTE

Ingredients : -
6 good cooking apples; 3 ounces butter; 2 ounces sugar; 4 egg yolks; grated lemon rind; cloves or nutmeg to flavour; 4 ounces bread-crumbs.


Bake the apples till tender. Scrape out the pulp. Cream butter and sugar, add lemon rind and pulp and grated cloves or nutmeg. Grease a pie-dish and sprinkle with bread-crumbs. Beat the yolks into the apple in the pie-dish, pour the mixture over, cover with bread crumbs, put small bits of butter on top, and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour 30 minutes till firm and set.


GIPSY BREAD

Ingredients : -
8 ounces flour; 4 ounces brown sugar; 4 ounces sultanas; a little milk; a little round ginger; 2 ounces grated peel; 4 ounces black treacle; 1 egg; a little mixed spice; a little bi-carbonate of soda.


Mix dry ingredients. Warm the treacle with milk, add the eggs beaten well, whisk; dissolve the bi-carbonate in a little milk, add to the mixture, mix all well together and place in 2 separate tins. Bake in a moderate oven for at least 2 hours.


HAMPSHIRE DROPS

Ingredients : -
4 ounces flour; 4 ounces castor sugar; 1 egg; 4 ounces corn flour; 4 ounces butter; a little baking powder; a little jam.


Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg and beat well, then mix in the other ingredients. Put 1 teaspoonful on a greased tin. Put two together when all are baked with a little jam in the middle, They take 10 minutes to bake in a moderate oven.


LARD CAKES
Hampshire Lard Cakes are the big cousins of tardy Johns of Sussex, recipe applies except that they are larger.


MOTHERING SUNDAY WAFERS

Ingredients : -
2 tablespoonful cream; 2 tablespoonful Sugar; 2 tablespoonful flour; 1 tablespoonful orange flower water.


Beat all together for 30 minutes, spread very thinly on a flat greased tin, about 6 inches diameter. Bake in a hot oven. Roll over a stick as soon as they are a light golden colour. They are very crisp when dry, and are served with jelly.


VECTIS PUDDING ( Isle of Wight )

Ingredients : -
2 ounces currants; 2 chopped apples; 8 ounces self-raising flour; a little spice; 4 ounces suet; 2 ounces sugar; a little lemon rind; 2 tablespoonful golden syrup.


Mix flour and suet to a stiff paste with water. Roll out thinly and spread with a mixture of currants, apples, golden syrup, sugar, lemon rind and spice. Roll up, close the ends firmly. Wrap in a floured cloth and steam for 2 hours.

HEREFORDSHIRE

LOVE IN DISGUISE

Ingredients : -
A calf's heart ; 4 ounces bread-crumbs ; 2 tablespoonfuls shredded suet; 2 ounces minced ham ; a little mustard ; 4 or 5 slices of fat bacon; 2 teaspoonful chopped parsley; 1 teaspoonful marjoram; a little lemon rind; salt and pepper; 1 oz broken-up vermicelli; gravy made with tomatoes.


Cook the vermicelli, drain and leave to get cold; remove all the pipes from the inside of the calf's heart, wash and put in cold water for an hour. Make a stuffing from bread-crumbs, a little of the egg and all the herbs, salt and pepper, ham and lemon rind. Dry the calf's heart, fill it with the stuffing, wrap the bacon round it and fasten with small skewers. Wrap up in greaseproof paper and cover with fat. Bake in a baking tin for 1 hour 30 minutes. Remove the paper and brush over with the yolk of egg. Then roll in bread crumbs mixed with vermicelli. Put back in the tin and bake in the oven till nicely browned. Serve with tomato gravy.


WHORTLEBERRY AND CROWBERRY PUDDING
There are many whortleberries and crowberries in the neighbourhood of Hereford and a steamed suet pudding made with them is a great delicacy.

HERTFORDSHIRE

POPE LADY CAKES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 1 lb. sugar; 12 ounces butter; a little baking powder; 2 ounces cornstarch; 16 egg whites; lemon or almond extract or rose water.


Cream butter and sugar with 8 egg whites. Sift flour, cornstarch and baking powder and add to mixture. Beat the remaining egg whites very stiff and fold in gently. Add the flavouring.
Grease 2 baking tins, pour in the mixture and bake in a slow oven for about 1 hour and 30 minutes.


RIVER IVEL : COOTS, MOORHENS, DABCHICKS
Coots are abundant on marshland and open in-land waters. They are best in pie or stew and should be skinned like rooks.
Moorhens (or water hens) make their homes on ponds, streams and lakes, and as coots and rooks should be skinned and well-cooked.
Dabchicks (or Little Grebe) are not a popular dish these days.


WATERCRESS
Watercress actually grows in the water of streams, big and small. In many places it is specially cultivated.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE

HUNTINGDON PUDDING

Ingredients : -
8 ounces flour; 1 egg; 3 ounces castor sugar; a little baking powder; 5 ounces suet; quarter of a pint of milk; 1 pint gooseberries.


Mix the flour and shredded suet, add sugar, baking powder and gooseberries. Stir well. Beat up the egg in milk, and add to the mixture gradually. Steam in a greased basin for three hours and serve with golden syrup.


ROAST VEAL AND ORANGE
This was Cromwell's favourite dish. When his wife had no oranges she used beans instead.


STILTON CHEESE
Stilton is a village in Huntingdonshire where the cheese was first made; it was first sold at the Bell Inn there at the close of the 18th century by a relative of the inventor, Mrs. Paulet. Most of the genuine Stilton to-day comes from Leicestershire and Rutland.
Stilton should be from 6 to 9 months old (it is made between May and September). It should be white with blue veins running through it evenly. The rind should be crinkly.

KENT

BIDDENDEN CAKES
Cakes given to all the poor of Biddenden, in memory of the two maids of Biddenden, once a year. The custom has been kept up to this day.


DAME SKINNER'S CAKES
These used to be a delicacy in Cranbrook.


DOVER SOLES
The name given to the tastiest of the soles to differentiate it from the lemon or Torbay sole.


DOVER SPLITS

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 1 pint milk; 1 oz butter; 2 teaspoonful of baking powder .


Rub flour and butter, then add baking powder. Make into a stiff dough with milk. Roll out on a board to one inch thickness; cut into small rounds and bake for about 15-20 minutes in a hot oven.


FLEAD CAKES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 1 egg; a little salt; 1 lb. of flear or leaf ( "flead " in Kent ); ½ ( half ) a pint of cold water to mix.


Mix flour and salt. Serape a little of the flead and add to the flour. Mix into a dough with water, knead and roll out on a board. Put some flead over the dough, fold over and roll out again. Repeat this until flead is used up. Roll out to one inch thickness and cut into small circles or whatever shape desired. Brush over with egg, bake in a hot oven until golden brown and eat hot. This pastry is also used for making fruit and meat pies, tarts and turnovers.


FOLKHSTONE PUDDING PIES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 3 ounces butter; 3 ounces lard; 3 eggs; 1 pint milk a ½ ( half ) ounce of ground rice; 2 ounces currants; 1 tablespoonful sugar.


Make a short crust with flour, butter and lard, roll out, cut into circles and line some breakfast saucers with it. Heat three-quarter of the milk in a saucepan. Mix ground rice and sugar in the rest of the milk, turn into the hot milk and stir till it thickens. Leave to cool a little and mix in the eggs slowly, stirring vigorously. Pour over the pastry. Sprinkle the currants over and bake till golden brown.


GURNET PUDDING
Gurnets were caught early in the morning in Hastings and brought to Cranbrook where the people made puddings with them tied in a cloth with suet pastry, and then boiled.


HUFFKINS

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour (plain) ; ½ ( half ) a teaspoonful salt; 2 and a ½ ( half ) gills warm milk and water; 1 ounces lard; 1 oz compressed yeast; 1 teaspoonful sugar.


Warm the mixing bowl. Sift flour and salt and rub in the lard. Cream yeast and sugar in another basin. Add milk and water. Then pour into the flour and make a light dough. Stand in a warm place for an hour to rise. Knead well. Then divide into three oval cakes about
½ ( half ) an inch thick. Make a hole in the middle. Flour the cakes and place on a warm tin. Leave in a warm place to "prove" until well risen. Bake in a hot oven for about 10 - 20 minutes, according to size. Take out and wrap the cakes in a warm cloth until cool. This will keep the crust soft and tender.

KENTISH CHEESE PASTIES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 4 ounces butter; 4 ounces lard; 12 ounces cheese cut in very thin flakes, mixed with butter; 1 egg; cayenne pepper and salt to taste.


Make some flaky pastry with flour, butter and lard. Roll out very thin on a board and cut into circles the size of a saucer. Put a tablespoonful of the cheese in the centre and sprinkle with salt and cayenne pepper. Moisten the edges of the pasties and fold up. Brush over with beaten egg. Bake in a hot oven for about 15-20 minutes and serve hot.


KENTISH PLOVER (Grey Plover)
is best stewed.


LAMBS' TAIL PIE
This pie can only be made at lambing time since the tails have to be absolutely fresh.
Lambs' tails; parsley or mint sauce; short crust .
Pour boiling water over the tails and skin after a few minutes. Cut up in pieces and lay in a pie-dish. Make a parsley or mint sauce and pour over. Cover with short crust and bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes.


OAST CAKES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 2 ounces sugar; 4 ounces lard; a little lemon juice; 6 ounces currants; 1 teaspoonful baking powder; a little salt; a little water to mix.


Mix dry ingredients and rub in the lard, add currants. Make a light dough with a little water and add lemon juice. Shape the dough into small pieces and roll out on a board. Fry in lard until golden brown. Serve hot.

SARRE CAKES
A cake was given with every glass of cherry brandy at one of the inns in Sarre.


TWICE LAID

Ingredients : -
Codfish; mashed potatoes; a little milk; 1 egg; salt and pepper; bread-crumbs; a little fat.


Divide the remains of codfish or cold salt fish into flakes. Mix in twice as much mashed potatoes. Add a little milk. Season with salt and pepper and make into balls. Dip into the egg, roll in bread-crumbs and fry in fat until brown.


WHITSTABLE OYSTERS
Whitstablc oysters have a very small beard and a sweet, nutty flavour. The shell is particularly pearly. Oysters should never be eaten during a month without the letter "r" in it - that is from May to August. Oysters are rich in vitamins, iodine and organic phosphorous.

LANCASHIRE

BANNOCKS
Bannocks are flat round breads, usually the size of a dinner plate, baked on a girdle. They can be made with wheat meal, oatmeal, barley or peasemeal.


BLACK PUDDING
A large sausage made from pig's blood and suet; it can be eaten fried or boiled.

BOLTON BREWIS
Brewis dates from the "
Hungry Forties " when the people of Lancashire were very poor. Pour boiling water over a crust of bread, pour the water off and sprinkle salt and pepper on the bread. Serve. Another kind of Brewis is made with the water in which pork has been boiled, poured over oatcakes which are then mashed, seasoned with salt and pepper and served by themselves or with black pudding.


BRAGGOT
A drink made of honey and ale fermented, or of sugar and spices and ale. Mid Lent Sunday is called Braggot Sunday, from the custom of drinking mulled or spiced ale on that day.


BRAWN

Ingredients : -
1 pigs head; 1 heart; 1 tongue; a little lemon rind, cloves, mace, pepper and salt; three quarters of a pint of vinegar.


Simmer the meat very gently in a saucepan with enough water to cover. When tender remove the bones and cut the meat into small pieces. Return to the water, add seasoning and vinegar. Boil up once and pour into a mould. Turn out when cold.


ECCLES CAKES

Ingredients : -
Short crust pastry; 4 ounces golden syrup; a little nutmeg; a little lemon juice; 4 ounces currants; 1 ounces ground coconut; 1 ounces ground almonds.


Line some patty pans with short crust, put in each a layer of syrup, then currants, spice, lemon juice, coconut and almonds. Cover with pastry. Roll over with the pin very gently. Bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes. When cold cut into pieces.


GOOSENARGH CAKES

Ingredients : -
1 lb. flour; 12 ounces butter; 2 ounces castor sugar; a few caraway and coriander seeds.


Rub flour and butter and roll out to
½ ( half ) an inch thickness. Sprinkle with sugar and spices. Bake next day on a greased tin in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.


HASTY HAGGIS

Ingredients : -
Dripping; 1 onion; 1 apple; 4 ounces oatmeal; a few currants; pepper, salt, and sugar to season; 1 tablespoonful water.


Melt the dripping in a frying pan. Chop the onion and apple very finely and fry. Add the currants and water, put the oatmeal in when it boils and stir, adding the Seasoning. Fry very quickly and serve hot.


JANNOCK
A variety of bread. The word jannock also means straightforward or genuine in Lancashire.


LANCASHIRE CHEESE
The best Lancashire cheese is made in the Fylde. It is a hard cheese, resembling Cheshire cheese.


LANCASHIRE HOT POT

Ingredients : -
2 lbs. mutton chops; 3 sheep's kidneys; 2 lbs. potatoes; 1 lb. onions; 8 ounces mushrooms; 2 ounces butter; 2 ounces ham (or bacon); ½ ( half ) a pint stock (or water); pepper (cayenne) and salt to season.


Cut the kidneys, peel and slice the onions and potatoes and chop the ham,. Place a layer of chops in a casserole, then the kidneys, mushrooms, ham, onions and potatoes, and season every layer; the last layer must be potatoes. Pour over the stock and put little pieces of butter on top. Cover the casserole and cook very slowly for about 3 hours. Take the lid off and brown the top before serving.

LANCASHIRE HOT POT ( Recipe Two )
Ingredients
1½ lb. best end neck of lamb, 2 lambs' kidneys, 1 lb. Potatoes, ½ lb. (half a lb) Onions, Salt and pepper ¼ (quarter) of a pint of stock or water, 1 oz. butter, melted (8 shelled oysters may be added if desired)


Cut the lamb into cutlets remove surplus fat; Peel and core kidneys, cut into slices.; Thinly slice potatoes and onions ; Cover base of 2 to 3-pint casserole dish with some of the potato slices, stand lamb on top. ; Cover with kidneys and onions, sprinkle with salt and pepper. & Arrange overlapping rings of rest of potatoes attractively on top ; Pour in stock or water, brush heavily with butter ; Cover dish with lid or aluminium foil, cook in centre of moderate oven for l hour 15 minutes ; Uncover, continue to cook for further a 30 minutes (or until potatoes are golden brown).
Serves 4


MANCHESTER PUDDING

Ingredients : -
Short crust pastry; jam (stoneless); 2 ounces butter; 2 eggs; 1 ounces castor sugar; ½ ( half ) a pint milk; the rind of 1 lemon; a tablespoonful brandy; 2 ounces bread-crumbs.


Boil the lemon rind in milk and pour over the bread-crumbs. Take the rind out and beat in the yolks after 5 minutes with butter, sugar and brandy. Line a pie-dish with pastry and spread some jam over it. Cover with the bread-crumbs mixture and bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes. Whip the whites of the eggs with some castor sugar and lay over the dish, sprinkle with sugar and return to the oven for a minute to set. Serve cold.


ORMSKIRK GINGERBREAD

Ingredients : -
10 ounces flour; 12 ounces butter; 1 lb. treacle; 1 lb. sugar; quarter ounce cinnamon; quarter ounce mace; ½ ( half ) ounce ground ginger; a little grated lemon rind.
Melt the butter and mix with treacle and sugar, add flour, lemon, cinnamon, mace and ginger. Beat the mixture well. Drop very thinly on a well-greased tin and bake in a moderate oven. Cut it into squares and turn it round your finger. Keep in a tin.


PARKINS

Ingredients : -
1½ lbs.(one & half lbs. ) oatmeal ; 1 lb. treacle; 8 ounces brown sugar; 8 ounces butter; 1 teaspoonful ground ginger; 1 teaspoonful allspice.


Mix the dry ingredients. Heat treacle and butter; add to the dry mixture and leave to stand overnight. Place in a well-greased shallow baking tin and bake in a moderate oven for about 2 hours. It is done when the parkin springs back when touched.


POTTED SHRIMPS

Ingredients : -
1 pint shrimps;4 ounces butter; 1 blade ground mace; a little cayenne pepper; a little ground nutmeg.


Only the freshest shrimps should be used. Melt the butter, add seasoning and shelled shrimps. Heat through gently but do not boil. Pour into small pots and eat when cold.


PRESTON PARKINS

Ingredients : -
8 ounces plain flour ; 8 ounces fine oatmeal; 8 ounces treacle; a little milk; 4 ounces brown sugar; 4 ounces butter and lard mixed; a teaspoonful of ground ginger, mixed spice, nutmeg and bi-carbonate of soda.


Rub butter and lard into the flour, add oatmeal and other dry ingredients, then the treacle. Dissolve the bi-carbonate of soda in milk, then add to the mixture. Pour into a well-greased tin and bake in a moderate oven for about 1 hour.


TRIPE
Tripe is the culinary term for the first and second stomachs of ruminants, but of the ox particularly. The texture of the first stomach is smooth, of the second, honey-combed.

Ingredients : -
Tripe and Onions : 1 lb. tripe; ½ ( half ) a pint milk; ½ ( half ) a pint water; a little flour; 2 onions; salt and pepper.


Wash the tripe well, cut into square pieces and bring to the boil in water. Throw the water away and add water and milk, chopped onions, salt and pepper, Thicken with flour after having boiled the tripe for a good 3 hours by stirring it in with a little milk. Bring to the boil again and serve.