Crowfield Clanger Crowfield Clanger The Clanger is a food particular to East Midlands and was traditionally given to agricultiral workers for their lunch box and smaller ones for school children The Bedfordshire clanger is a suet pastry with a savoury filling (like bacon and eggs or minced lamb) in one end, suet pastry dam in the midddle and a sweet filling (rhubarb, custard, marmalade) in the other. This is still made today in a Bedford shop The Northamptonshire Clanger is suet roll filled chopped bacon and onion, baked in the oven. The Crowfield Clanger is an adaptation of the Bedford Clanger but filled with something savoury like bacon at one end and jam or some fruit at the other, twisted in the middle instead of seperated by a dam and baked (Hutchins 1967) Some web resources : why the clanger isn't claggy any more Click Here Paul Townsend Best of British Food - Bedfordshire Clanger Click Here A video showing the basics of making a clanger but with some custom twists, making a modern clanger ... Click Here Some pictures of early 20th century characters who would have had Crowfield Clangers Click Here