Bedfordshire Clanger

[HeyWayne]

Has anyone ever had one?

Bedfordshire clanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bedfordshire County Council: Bedfordshire Clanger

Why isn't it as famous as the Cornish Pasty?

I've heard about them for years, but never found anywhere that sells them.

It's a travesty I tell 'e!

[lynda66]

i'd rather have the soup dragon

[Seahorse]

How fabulous!

Roll up your sleeves and make your own HW! I think I might!

[smallblueplanet]

I thought you meant my UK cousins!

The Bedfordshire Clanger is a hefty suet pastry Bedfordshire Clangers with a savoury filling at one end and a sweet one at the other, thus giving farm labourers a complete meal in one. However, this does not seem to have been the original form. Clangers were once a boiled suet roll, like a plum duff or roly-poly. The roll contained a meat filling and the crust itself was studded with fruit, again a complete meal in one. Compilations of English country recipes show them to have been plain, substantial food for farm labourers and other manual workers. Suet pastry enclosed a filling that varied with the affluence of the family involved. The poor used bacon, which was the only meat that was readily available. Richer families used good steak or pork.

Great British Kitchen

Great British Cookbook - Bedfordshire Clangers

[Alice]

Sounds a bit like the Forfar Bridie. Mince and tatties in a pastry case shaped to go into the bib pocket in overalls. Still sell them around here and very good they are. No sweet end though.
Rat, that could be an opportunity for you - mince and tatties one end, rhubabrb the other.
On a slightly different note

I'm growing cucumber Bedfordshire Prize. No prizes here- so far anyway. A few reluctant flowers - and - we shall see.

[ailsasyl]

my ex father in law talked about these he'd had them when he started his carpenter apprentanceship, never had one myself Sadly he passed away recently my ex never talked about having them so reckon they've gone out of favour over the years. Both bedfordshire born and bred

[Mikey]

Its not well known because you lot went and copied the pasty, and called it a different name, Its a travesty I tell 'e.

[squashysu]

having been a beddie like you HW all my life, i have never ever heard or eaten one! and by reading the recipe, i dont think i want too either!! lol

SS

[Mikey]

We have a pasty in Wales called an oggie, see here

Personally I cannot see the resemblance at all!