Recipes from Wales

Traditional Welsh cookery is elusive. In previous centuries it was over -shadowed by the English cookery which was practised in the better-off households. At the present time, amid the general enthusiasm for rediscovering local and regional cuisines, efforts have been made to reconstitute a corpus of Welsh recipes; but much of what has appeared in print is pseudonymous and poorly documented and can be traced back to the out-of-print Croeso Cymreig (A Welsh Welcome), a book produced by the Welsh Gas Board which had its origin in a general competition for good recipes, whether Welsh or not.