County Names It is alleged (in the excellent journal of
the Women's Institutes) every county in the old days gave its name to a particular food prod and of course a good many local, if not county, names leap to memory, surviving even to these days of centralisation and large- manufacture, such as Yorkshire puddings and parkins ; Essex S cakes ; Surrey capons ; Cheshire, Cheddar, Stilton, Godmanchester other cheeses ; Aylesbury ducks ; Cornish pasty ; Devonshire ( Cornish) cream ; Wiltshire bacon. Nevertheless, can every county c such a distinctive food? Have Rutland, for example, and Oxford Stafford any particular claims? Huntingdon, which is small and popularly distinguished, includes both Stilton and Godmanchester; has given its name also to a variety of elm tree. Such local names o to be rescued from oblivion, for they vanish rapidly.
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