Q:
A: The Bedfordshire clanger is a pastry which is internally divided with pastry strip so that you can have one half filled with a meat filling, similar to the Cornish pasty, while the other half has a sweet filling such as apples (usually). The field workers and ploughman used to take this out to work with them as a filling, and easily carried meal, the pastry I suspect was a fair amount heavier in the stodge department than modern taste would appreciate as it was supposed to be cheap but not leave the man hungry. I live in a town called Sandy where one of our local baker's David Gunns re-introduced or indeed resurrected the clanger some years ago and indeed featured briefly as on of Rick Stein's local food heroes. I imagine that if you look hard enough though at most farming/mining or heavy manual labour areas, some derivative of these would be remembered by many of the older generation whose fathers/grandfathers would have eaten them with varying degrees of relish. Hope that helps. Cheers, Kuta
Related items
- Who existed first - Vancouver of USA or Canada?
- How long is the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Vancouver?
- Looking for reasonably air tickets from Vancouver to Zimbabwe?
- What is a good hostel in Whistler? (Or just a cheap place to stay)?
- Why are some movies set in Seattle filmed in Vancouver?