Traditional Welsh Recipes

Hello and welcome to our website on Traditional Welsh Recipes !

The "new look" Traditional Welsh Recipes site is easier on the eyes and easier to navigate, but above all, it is easier to find the Welsh recipes you want.

The articles are all in one place, but they are on a drop-down menu, which should make it far easier to find what you want. Most people come for the Welsh recipes and so I adopted the same approach there, but with the added refinement of categorizing these gourmet dishes.

I have added the Welsh language names for the dishes I could verify and have left the Welsh name off where I could not. My Welsh is no longer good enough to make a name up.

This was quite difficult in some cases. Some of these traditional Welsh recipes could easily have gone into two, three or even more categories.

"Glamorgan Sausage", for example, consists mostly of bread, eggs and cheese, but people who only know the name ('sausage') would probably look for it under 'Meat'. I put it under 'Other'.

Meat pies and pasties are under 'Other' too, but 'Apple Pie' is under 'Desserts'. It was really difficult, so I hope you'll bear with me and look around Traditional Welsh Recipes.

In Wales, it was traditional to have three meals a day. Breakfast would have been a large, fatty meal chosen from food like fried bacon, eggs, bread, larva, mushrooms and black pudding. There may also have been porridge and / or toast.

Welsh Rarebit may have been more popular on days off, like Sunday or for retirees. Lunch would have been sandwiches or pies or pasties, but would have been fairly light.

The evening meal, sometimes called tea or dinner, would have been ready for when the workers had had a wash after work (and a pint), maybe between six and seven in the evening.

Most of the meals you will find here come into this category. Tea was often a three course meal of soup, main meal and sweet.

Dinner and lunch might swap places on Sunday, giving rise to the Sunday Dinner or Sunday Lunch at or just after midday, say between twelve and one.

This was a typical working class / farmers' routine, but the English upper and middle classes had their own way of doing things and ate much later in the evening - often as late as nine o' clock.

If you have Welsh connections and would like to try food that your great-grandmother might have cooked like laverbread, melt-in-your-mouth fried fish or Welsh lamb, followed by sumptuous but simple sweets or cakes cooked on a griddle, please come in and look around.

If you have a traditional Welsh recipe or even a newer one that is one of your favourite Welsh recipes to share with the world, please send it to me using the 'Contact' button on the left. Let's build a large database of real Welsh recipes!

If you have a suggestion or if you just want to say 'hello', you can use that button too. I'd be happy to hear from you.

All the best,

Owen.
Traditional Welsh Recipes.