This book is a look at regional baking around the United Kingdom. Paul has taken recipes from all over the Isles, and broken them down into the following categories:
Southwest; South and Southeast; Midlands; North; Wales; Ireland; and Scotland
More useful for me though is the breakdown by recipe type:
Savoury pies, pastries and puddings: baked Somerset Brie; Cornish pasties; Denby dale cake; Dingle lamb pie; fidget pie; hame and goat’s leek couronne; homity pie; leek and Caerphilly tart; Norfolk plough pudding; priddy oggies; Sussex churls; Welsh onion cake; Whitby fish pie
Scones, griddle scones and pancakes: boxty pancakes; cheese and chive scones; oatmeal drop scones; pikelets; Staffordshire oatcakes; sultana scone ring; Welsh cakes
Breads: Boxty bread; crusty Swansea; Kentish huff kings; Norfolk knobs; oat bread; Sally Lunn; soda bread; stilton, pear and walnut bread; stottie cakes; wholemeal seeded load
Sweet yeasted breads: barm brace; Devonshire splits; Dorset wiggs, Isle of Wight doughnuts; Lincolnshire plum bread; mothering buns; saffron cake; Selkirk bannock; Whitby lemon buns
Sweet pies and puddings: Bkaewell pudding; Eton messl halloween pudding; Hereford apple dumplings; Leicestershire hunting pudding; marmalade cheesecake with whisky oranges; Monmouth pudding with plums; Odlbury gooseberry pies; Osborn pudding; poor knights of Windsor; rhubarb plate pie; St Fillan’s pudding; Sussex pond pudding; treacle sponge pudding
Sweet tarts and pastries: Bakewell tart; Chorley cakes; Ecclefechan butter tarts; Eccles cakes; maid of honour; Manchester tart; Northamptonshire cheesecakes; strawberry and pistachio shortcakes
Cakes and tea breads: bars brith, black burn; cider cake; Cumbrian sand cake; Dorset apple cake; farmhouse walnut cake; Guinness and black mini muffins; honey buns; Kentish cherry cake, Hevva cake; Irish coffee cake, marmalade cake, Melton Hunt cake; porter cake; raspberry crumble cake; Ripon spice cake; seed cake; white chocolate and cherry plate cake
Biscuits and tray bakes: chocolate chip petticoats tails; chocolate heavies; coconut flapjacks; Cornish fairings; Goosnargh cakes; jumbles; oat biscuits; oatcakes; parlies; Shewsbury biscuits; Tantallon cakes, Welsh gingerbread; Yorkshire parkin
I’m not sure I’d ordinarily rave about Paul’s books, and I do have several… However the process of indexing my hundreds of cookbooks has really made me focus on content – where increasingly recipes overlap, Paul has managed to capture a number of old-fashioned recipes that aren’t listed very often these days. It’s worth having for that alone. I love making bara brith, so it was very useful to have some other variations – I’ll definitely try the Ripon spice cake.
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