I've just made a Leicestershire Apple Cake

Oh yes we make Welsh cakes!! On St David's Day.

Although I did buy them this year from a Welsh bakery.

I don't think we have any regional recipes in Surrey!
Or can anyone tell me one? I'd love to know.

I've got a tea towel with recipe for Welsh cakes. I did make them once. Bit high fat though!

Love any baked goods with saffron!

Welsh cakes are usually on sale in bakers and supermarkets all year round.
Tan Y Castell, Brace's, Village Bakery etc make them

This is the recipe my friend gave me . I have approximated the metric as she gave me the recipe a long time ago. It's a bit like a short cake top and bottom and I don't put the apple right up to the edge .
I've still got windfalls to use up.

Leicestershire Apple Cake
Ingredients

Butter4 Ounce (100 Gram)

Caster sugar3 Ounce (75 Gram)

Egg1 (Size 3)

Self raising flour6 Ounce (150 Gram)

Cooking apples1 Pound (450 Gram)

Caster sugar4 Ounce (100 Gram)
Directions
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4.
Cream together the butter and sugar, add the egg and beat well.
Gradually add the self-raising flour, beating well.
Stew the apples with the sugar, and drain off any juice.
Divide the pastry into two, and press one half into the base of an 18 x 18cm (7x7 inch) shallow baking tin.
Cover the pastry with the apple.
On a lightly floured board, press the remaining pastry out to a square to fit over the apples.
Bake on the third shelf for forty-five minutes.
When cold, turn out and cut into squares, and sprinkle with caster sugar

% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17 g25.5%
Saturated Fat 10 g50.2%

Oh that's an unusual one. Must be like a rich pastry. I've done ones where the Apple is incorporated into a cake mixture. Yours sounds nicer.

Just waiting for our Bramleys to reach peak picking point......

Quite different to Dorset Wye Valley Apple Cake:

www.lynsted.com/Recipes/Cookbook/English_Apple_Cake.html

jingl Oxford Pudding exists though I've never made it - see here for numerous supposedly local recipes. I've got so many apple cake recipes, but can never remember from one year to the next which one is our favourite. I'll try yours out Stansgran , thank you.

Ooh, Nigella does a Berkshire bacon pudding www.nigella.com/recipes/view/berkshire-bacon-pudding-1155 Just for jings that one, pig and local!

I live in the North East (nearly), and I make singing hinnies. I call them girdle scones, but it is almost the same recipe! I used to live in Cumbria, and did make Nickie Cake (Cumberland Rum Nickie) but without the rum so the children could eat it. I soaked the currants in fruit juice instead.

I make Scotch pancakes often, and Granny, Mum and Aunties all did too. When children were small, I made the mixture into teddy bears, cats, pancake men, etc. My sis in law was clever. - she made football shaped pancakes for her boys! Easy, quick and tasty. I bake a lot, apple cake of different kinds, girdle scines and boiled fruit cake, easiest of the lot. We used to have a B and B so homebakes were useful.

What about oat cakes? I grew up in the Potteries and we had StaffordshIre oat cakes for breakfast on Sundays. Nothing like Scottish oat cakes - more like a Breton crepe. Ate with bacon, sausage, cheese or eggs. delicious!

I can't find my Cornish recipe book It must be somewhere!!!!

Cornish Fairings.
Clotted Cream
No wonder I am the size of a house

I'm not sure Wiltshire has any of its own recipes, we do have Wiltshire ham.
Bath Chap is the closest - pigs cheek cooked after being rolled in breadcrumbs.

Oh! My mum-in-law used to make that newist. Very nice too.

Ah yes, Staffordshire oat cakes. I haven't had one for years (and years)

DMIL used to make her own clotted cream when the milk was delivered in jugs.

Thanks for putting the link on again icyalittle, I did put the link on for the Berkshire bacon pudding for jings but I think she missed it (unless she had gone off to make one) .

I have a 'Plymouth Sound' cookery book somewhere whitewave.

No I haven't, I must have thrown it out when I had a cull after DH kept nagging about all my rubbish

Ooh! That Oxford pudding sounds lovely too. Love apricots.

We buy oatcakes of the type you describe from a shop in Chesterfield. They are delicious with bacon, eggs and tomatoes. I didn't know they originated in Staffordshire. When I was young, a man used to come around the houses with a basket covered in a gingham cloth, selling oatcakes, and pikelets, which were like crumpets but thinner. I always thought oatcakes were seasonal, but they don't appear to be now.

Bramley apples and Leicestershire very much go together for me. No Bramleys where we live now sadly. We had a long front garden and 2 massive bramley apple trees at the side- just loved them. Our house is now a nursery, and named after those trees.

I used to eat a sharp apple and a bit piece of cheese for my lunch when I was very young.
We thought it was slimming

Very nice together, though!

It's not a natural pairing though Granjura, is it? Leicestershire is more known for it's hosiery which wouldn't make brilliant food!

bit piece ?

BIG piece!!

agreed-it is for me for reasons given. Red cheese though, and Stilton too and Pork Pies.

[Kitty] Leices. Should have been famous for steamed pudding, they could have been steamed in a sock!

x

Don't know what's wrong with my bracket tonight!