Recipe

[Munden]

What is the following the recipe for? there is a reference to a Town or City :- 8oz puff pastry mixed spice 1-2oz brown sugar 3oz seedless raisins 2-3 cooking apples

[Dave Potts]

Possible answers here - question 43087

[saffstar]

Someone asked this about a week ago, the best I could come up with was this: Possibly a variation of Banbury Apple Pie? That's the best I can come up with so far, sorry. See http://goto.glocalnet.net/recipezone/mainframe.htm for the recipe.

[IndieSinger]

D'you know I lived in Banbury for 17 years of my life and I've never heard of Banbury Apple Pie. The only sweet that was sold there as anything to do with Banbury were Banbury Cakes, which had nothing to do with apples or pies. Interesting!

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady upon a white horse, with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes.

FACT! That nursary rhyme was once sung on an episode of Neighbours and it made the local paper (The Banbury Guardian).

FACT! Banbury doesn't have any kind of lady - fine or otherwise - and neither does it have a white horse. A few years ago they were on about building one. Then they didn't instead.

FACT! The term "Fine lady" in the rhyme, actually comes from and old Lord and Lady of the Manor (at Broughton I think, just outside Banbury) who were Lord and Lady Feinnes.

FACT! Banbury Cross isn't a cross. (Admittedly, it used to be hundreds of years ago, when it literally was just a small wooden cross in a different part of town. These days, Banbury Cross is a magnificently underwhelming concrete pointy stump with statues in it.

FACT! Oxford, the nearest city to Banbury about 25 miles South, has a similar concrete pointy stump with statues in it, but it's about 4 times the width and height. But they don't have a nursary rhyme.

FACT!

[IndieSinger]

Sorry, can I just point out that when I said Banbury doesn't have any kind of lady - fine or otherwise, I didn't mean it to be quite so derogatory! I just meant there's no statue of a lady. Fine or otherwise.