I've just made a Leicestershire Apple Cake

That would have been spotted dick then (sorry)...

we did a teacher exchange with a teacher from East Berlin once- and he was really amaused about this- so the first Sunday he was with use we just had to make one. Had never made a steam pud before.

I make singin' hinnies! Apparently when my granddad was in the navy during the war, my grandmother ended up in Bolton and learnt to make them there. They give a little squeak when you press them down on the griddle.

As a result, they have been made all over the UK.

I make Welsh Cakes, but I`m not Welsh..I bought some once in Conwy but they were a bit over cooked !!
My family love Lancashire Hotpot which I make in the winter....coming to that time of year soon so better get the recipe out.
My all time favourite is pie, mash and liquer but then I was born in the East End of London and that was our weekly treat ,absolutely love it, get a takeaway from Tony`s in Waltham Cross best ever...especially if David Beckham is in there having his!

The only foodstuff I can think of that's named after anywhere round here is Stock.

I live in Leics and I have never heard of it either.

Did anybody watch the recent BBC2 series with Terry Wogan and a London Cabby?

I really enjoyed it for a 6.30 t.v slot? They went to Weymouth, York, Chester, Bath, Ludlow etc.

The show was all about local products and food and my favourite was the pie made at Devizes, Wiltshire, yum.

I went to the cafe in Bath once to have a 'Sally Lunn' but was a bit disappointed with it.

Stan'sgran every time you made a beef stew you were making scouse, just a different name, if you didn't use meat it became blind scouse.

Is that what scouse is?

Always known as 'beef casserole' when I was growing up.

Just like to thank Stansgran for posting her recipe for Leicestershire Apple Cake. Having been donated a huge nag of windfall apples I was lost for ideas for what to make next. The freezer is overflowing with stewed apples ready to make apple crumbles and pies. I had combined some with blueberries, stewed some with quince and even added the remaining blackberries from the freezer to another batch and made some bramble jelly but still there were several pounds of fruit left.
As I had all the ingredients for Stansgran's recipe I set to and made a batch and it is so different to any apple cake I have made in the past. Will certainly be making this again.
As to regional recipes, whenever we visit Yorkshire a Yorkshire Curd Tart is a must and in Lincolnshire we came across Lincolnshire Plum Bread. Living in Oxfordshire the only speciality I can think of, besides the Oxford Marmalade, is a Banbury Cake. Incidentally, Oxford Marmalade is no longer made in the city but you can visit many of the former sites connected to its story.

Ooh, I love Yorkshire curd tart! How could I have forgotten that one! I'll have to turn in my Tykes membership card!

Magsmay scouse was in my school days a rather watery potato and onion mixture with not much meat anyway and all cooked together. No presealing the meat and thickening the gravy. Lob scouse we also called it blind scouse.

Isn't Staffordshire Oat cake an anglicised version of chapatti? I was told by a friend from Stoke that it was brought back from India by the Staffordshire Regiment. A yeast based pancake that was great with melted cheese and bacon. Suspect the bacon bit was added here.

Buddie I have other recipes for apples for when we have a glut . They are probably on Google but they are very useful:- Friars omelette,pandowdy and and the exotic and rich Peasant Girl in a Veil. Last year I made loads of apple butter and it still hasn't been used up. They are all from an oldish cookbook I have and if you want the recipes or can't find them on google pm me and I will send them as attachments. The recipes are very vague as to which apples but as we have only Worcester Pearmain that's what I use

Going to make apple butter tomorrow with my grandson, Stansgran.
We have some nice jars to give away as presents.
He has already made apple and plum jam, and Autumn chutney this week. Never had so many apples on my tree as this year.

Very surprised at the poster who can't find Welsh cakes! They are everywhere at the moment where I am. And so easy to make.

My favourite (only)? Welsh recipe is good old Cawl. Just onions, leeks, potatoes and some scrag of lamb. Used to be so cheap but more pricey now as scrag is less easy to find.

stansgran and djen

Have you ever made apple butter in a slow cooker?
I confess I had never heard of it, but it sounds delicious but I may not have time to hang around all day giving it an occasional stir in a saucepan.
I looked online and found slow cooker recipes but I wonder how successful they would be

#surroundedbyapples

Cawl was a recipe I learned from my husband's Welsh family along with Bara Brith (a fruit cake made with tea) and Welsh Cakes but I never tried laver bread or indeed the cockles his uncle used to collect.

Stansgran, I have sent you a PM as I would indeed love to see your recipes.Aiming to make some mint jelly today to cope with a glut of both apples and mint!

All this talk of apples has reminded me of a book my children enjoyed called Apple Pigs by Ruth Orbach. We borrowed it from the library and it was so popular we bought our own copy and it was a firm favourite with young children at school when I was teaching, too. A glut of apples is the result of caring for an old tree.

Nothing traditional here in Birmingham. However, the balti was invented here

Faggots and mushy pays!

Bedfordshire clanger which is a type of pasty savoury one end and sweet the other.