Editing Lancashire (section)

===Cuisine===
[[File:Lancashire hotpot.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lancashire hotpot]]]]
[[File:Lancashire cheese.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lancashire cheese]]]]
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Lancashire is the origin of the [[Lancashire hotpot]], a [[casserole]] dish traditionally made with [[Lamb and mutton|lamb]]. Other traditional foods from the area include:

* [[Black peas]], also known as parched peas: popular in [[Darwen]], [[Bolton]] and [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]].
* Bury [[black pudding]] has long been associated with the county. The most notable brand, Chadwick's Original Bury Black Puddings, are still sold on [[Bury Market]],<ref>{{cite news | url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article1080357.ece | title= Food detective: Bury black pudding | first= Sheila | last= Keating | newspaper= [[The Times]] | date= 11 June 2005 | access-date= 14 October 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110614235443/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article1080357.ece | archive-date= 14 June 2011 | url-status= dead | df= dmy-all }}</ref> and are manufactured in [[Rossendale Valley|Rossendale]].
* Butter cake: slice of bread and butter.
* [[Butter pie]]: a savoury pie containing potatoes, onion and butter. Usually associated with [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]].
* Clapbread: a thin [[Staffordshire oatcake|oatcake]] made from unleavened dough cooked on a griddle.
* [[Chorley cake]]s: from the town of [[Chorley]].
* [[Eccles cake]]s are small, round cakes filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, originally made in Eccles.
* Fag pie: pie made from chopped dried figs, sugar and lard. Associated with [[Blackburn]] and [[Burnley]], where it was the highlight of ''Fag Pie Sunday'' ([[Lent|Mid-Lent Sunday]]).
* [[Fish and chips]]: the first fish and chip shop in northern England opened in [[Mossley]], near Oldham, around 1863.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.niagara.co.uk/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327221624/http://www.niagara.co.uk/fish_and_chips.htm|url-status=dead|title=Niagara.co.uk|archive-date=27 March 2010|website=Niagara.co.uk}}</ref>
* Frog-i'-th'-'ole pudding: now known as "[[toad in the hole]]"
* [[Frumenty]]: sweet porridge. Once a popular dish at Lancashire festivals, such as Christmas and Easter Monday.
* [[Goosnargh]] cakes: small flat [[shortbread]] biscuits with coriander or [[caraway]] seeds pressed into the biscuit before baking.<ref>Sudi Pigott (30 May 2013), [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/goosnagh-cake-sea-lavender-honey-medlar-butter-forgotten-foods-making-a-comeback-8638530.html Goosnagh cake, sea lavender honey, medlar butter – forgotten foods making a comeback] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504011507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/goosnagh-cake-sea-lavender-honey-medlar-butter-forgotten-foods-making-a-comeback-8638530.html |date=4 May 2018 }}, ''The Independent'', accessed 3 May 2018</ref> Traditionally baked on feast days like [[Shrove Tuesday]].
* Jannock: cake or small loaf of oatmeal. Allegedly introduced to Lancashire (possibly [[Bolton]]) by [[Weaver (occupation)|weavers]] of [[Flemish people|Flemish]] origin.
* [[Lancashire cheese]] has been made in the county for several centuries.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.lancashirecheese.com/history.htm | publisher= Lancashire Cheese Makers | title= Lancashire Cheese History | access-date= 14 October 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090828155652/http://www.lancashirecheese.com/history.htm | archive-date= 28 August 2009 | url-status= usurped | df= dmy-all }}</ref> [[Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese]] has been awarded EU [[Protected Designation of Origin]] (PDO) status.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/industry/regional/foodname/products/registered/beacon.htm | publisher= [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]] | title= EU Protected Food Names Scheme: Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese | access-date= 14 October 2009 | url-status= dead | archive-url= http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20091106090654/http%3A//www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/industry/regional/foodname/products/registered/beacon.htm | archive-date= 6 November 2009 | df= dmy-all }}</ref>
* Lancashire Flat Cake: A lemon flavoured sponge cake, traditionally made with a couple too many eggs, best eaten after being chilled.
* [[Lancashire oatcake]], resembling a large oval pancake, eaten either moist or dried
* Lancashire Sauce, a lightly spiced mustard produced by the Entwistle family of Bury
* "Stew and hard": a beef and cowheel stew with dried Lancashire oatcake
* Nettle porridge: a common starvation diet in Lancashire in the early 19th century. Made from boiled stinging nettles and sometimes a handful of meal.
* [[Ormskirk]] gingerbread: local delicacy that was sold throughout South Lancashire.
* [[Parkin (cake)|Parkin]]: a ginger cake with oatmeal.
* Pobs or pobbies: bread and milk.
* Potato hotpot: a variation of the Lancashire Hotpot without meat that is also known as ''fatherless pie''.
* Ran Dan: barley bread. A last resort for the poor at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century.
* [[Rag pudding]]: traditional [[suet pudding]] filled with minced meat, originating in [[Oldham]].
* [[Throdkins]]: a traditional breakfast food of [[the Fylde]].
* [[Uncle Joe's Mint Balls]]: traditional [[Mints (candy)|mint]]s produced by William Santus & Co. Ltd. in [[Wigan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Uncle Joe's Mint Balls|url=http://www.uncle-joes.com/sweet-shop/uncle-joes-mint-balls|work=Uncle Joe's Favourites|publisher=Wm Santus & Co. Ltd|access-date=14 August 2013|year=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827034529/http://www.uncle-joes.com/sweet-shop/uncle-joes-mint-balls|archive-date=27 August 2013|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>