Fly cemetaries = Eccles cakes!!! A sort of pastry filled with currants in a syrupy sauce. Blech!

My mother still makes clootie dumpling, a large amount of suet and dried fruit which is then boiled. Once it has sat cold for a while ( leftovers the next day sort of thing ) you then slice it up, fry it and eat it with your breakfast......blech!

You can tell I don't like dried fruit.

For those who would like to "bulk out" or raise your blood pressure, there's always tablet. No, not small bits of stone, but essentially 2lbs of sugar, a large can of condensed milk and a couple of drops of vanilla essence. Boil for twenty minutes whilst stirring, pour into tray to set & then eat. It's kind of like very hard fudge. We used to live on it. ( Why was I not fat when I was a kid? )

TTFN M'lady P.