Favourite Regional Delicacy

I can't recommend any Fenland delicacies unless you are partial to eels

Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies (preferably the Henry Walker ones). Can't stand the cheese, though it makes lovely soup, and can't eat the delicious pastry!

Worcestershire Sauce

Yorkshire fat rascals and curd tarts. Stotty bread in Northumberland, and hinny cakes. Genuine Bakewell puddings.

Selkirk Bannock - s sort of fruit loaf which is good slathered with butter (ooh matron!) and eaten on a cold day (or indeed a warm/cool/wet/dry day)

Stottie cakes in the North East with ham and home made peas pudding.

Please translate dahlia
The Belgians do a good line in eels merlot "paling in red" and "paling in green" isn't it? But maybe they are better cooks than Fenlanders ?

I'll go with the Selkirk bannocks too, gracesmum; soft fruit from the Carse of Gowrie; Ayrshire potatoes; Arbroath smokies.
You'll notice that for delicacies I have gone back to my home territory.

Cornish pasties made in Cornwall, no contest!

Gypsy Tart from Kent. Star Gazy pie from Cornwall. Jellied eels and whitebait from London.

Lardy cake, a Wiltshire/West Berkshire specialty. Our village bakery do them, full of dried fruit and lard and they are DELICIOUS

I'm with you MiceElf, gypsy tart, only Kent schools used to serve it for school dinners. So fattening and sickly but fabby yum yum!!!

It doesn't take much to be a better cook than a Fen Tiger, Jess. There's a well known restaurant in Ely that hasn't changed its menu since it opened in 1968 Eels are on the menu, of course. (Yuk)

Oh, and I forgot about Sussex Pond Pudding. It's a steamed pudding which hides whoe lemons inside which appear with a wonderful lemony scent and juices when the pudding is cut into.

Nanapug, do you still make Gypsy Tart?

I've heard of those but never made one. With Kent and Sussex ancestors I really ought to.

I know it's a very big region, but can I leave the UK and mention Norwegian waffles please?

Cheating grannyactivist unless you have been keeping your Norwegian identity a secret until now. How do you make gypsy tart ?

We only have mushy peas round 'ere ....

Have never made Gypsy Tart MiceElf, afraid I rarely have it as it is a real hip hugger (and we can buy it from our local farm shop). I believe it is very easy to make though and the recipe is here http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/259622/gypsy-tart

I second the cornish pasties and would add cornish heavy cake and saffron cake and of course cornish clotted cream

cornish heavy cake sounds really tempting...

Why is it heavy and what's in it?
As fruit cakes go, I advocate Dundee cake.

Not sure why it's heavy although I suppose it's quite a stodgy cake. I seem to have lost my recipe but it had fruit in it and I think you roll it out and spread it with butter, then fold it up (a bit like puff pastry) and score the top diagonally like a trellis and sprinkle sugar over it before you bake it. It doesn't rise a lot so it comes out square and flattish and if you're like my husband you can split it open and butter it.

That sounds quite rich, Deeda. I am sure that there'll be a recipe on the internet.