Traditional Welsh Recipes

Meat Recipes.

Meat has always been very popular in Wales, as these recipes demonstrate so clearly demonstrate.

The most common sources of meat were traditionally sheep and pigs. Sheep still roam freely not far outside all Welsh tows and cities, although the Chernobyl disaster rendered many of them inedible for a long time. Since then they have suffered other onslaughts such as 'blue tongue'. This precisely because they are 'free range' and so harder to husband.

Most families kept a pig or two too, not so long ago as the vast majority of Wales is covered with small-holdings.

Beef is there too, but it was probably a little expensive to be eaten on a regular basis. cattle have also suffered in recent decades with 'foot and mouth' taking its toll.

Regards,

Owen.

• Cwningen â Chorbys (Rabbit with Lentils).
  
  An economical and filling farmhouse dish.
• Oen Cymreig â Mêl (Honeyed Welsh Lamb).
  
  A leg of Welsh lamb, coated with honey, roasted and served with a cider and honey gravy.
• Pastei Oen Cymreig (Welsh Lamb Pie).
  
  A recipe for Welsh Lamb Pie kindly sent in (annonymously).
• Stiw Eidion Cymreig (Welsh Beef Stew).
  
  This all-in-one stew would sometimes be used to provide two meals; meat and vegetables for one and broth for the other.
• Tatws a Chig yn y Popty (Meat and Potatoes in the Oven).
  
  This dish comes from North Wales and is particularly found in Anglesey. Traditionally, it is served with carrots or carrots and swedes mashed together.