Yorkshire Fat Rascals Recipe
 
Ingredients

8oz plain flour    
1 oz light brown sugar
¼ teaspoon salt    
3 tablespoons milk
4oz butter    
caster sugar
2 oz currants     
      
Instructions

Sift flour and salt, rub in the butter. Add the currants and sugar. Stir in the milk and about 1 tablespoon of water. Mix to a firm dough. Knead lightly and roll to half an inch thickness. Cut into 2 inch rounds. Place on a greased baking tray, the dredge tops with caster sugar. Bake in a fairly hot oven for about 20 minutes.

Dozens more traditional Yorkshire recipes here:-

http://www.yorkshirerecipes.co.uk/

Oh & gran used to make us drink this when we had sore throats!!!

"Mahogany"- an old Cornish drink: 2 parts Gin to 1 part treacle. Mix well & pour. 

Here in Dortmund they have a specialty completely unknown in the next town (where I grew up), but that is actually very good: Salzbrötchen.
It's basically a special kind of roll. It looks like a bagel, but I think it is just "normal" roll dough shaped like a bagel and baked (not boiled before). The "Salz" part comes in the form of coarse salt and lots of caraway seeds  sprinkled on it. There is nothing better in the summer when you need something salty. I like mine with some cheese, but don't know if there is a traditional "topping"

Pretzels have been mentioned a couple of times, but do you know the fascinating history of this ubiquitous snack?

Briefly, Pretzels were invented by monks, used for the teaching of religion, to feed the poor, and to symbolize the marriage bond. That is the history, now they are popular bar snacks.

You can read a fuller history at:-

http://www.essortment.com/all/pretzelhistory_raxn.htm

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel

Who would have thought such a simple snack would be so significant in history.

Just as footnote, a pretzel came close to preventing the the whole sorry saga of Americas attacks on the Middle East when GW Bush almost choked on one in January 2002..... One of the great "if only" moments in history