Fig or Fag Pie

This is a Mothering Sunday delicacy in some parts of Lancashire. At Blackburn and district, for example, it was the custom for people to visit their friends on this day, when they would be given ‘fag-pie’ and egg flip. At Burnley the custom is kept up on the fifth Sunday in Lent.

In some villages Palm Sunday (the Sixth Sunday in Lent) is known as ‘Fig Sunday.’ ‘At Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, the children procure figs, and nearly every house has a fig-pudding. For some days before