Paterson notes the following in a piece entitled "Local Dishes":
OATMEAL DUMPLING
Made of oatmeal and flour and cooked in broth.
APPLE CAKE
Make pastry. Peel apples and slice finely. Enclose between two sheets of pastry and cook on griddle. A great delicacy in the Orchard County.
APPLE DUMPLINGS
Enclose apples in a pastry ball and boil in broth or water.
SOWANS
Small seeds of corn and weeds which are separated from good corn at the mill. Ground separately and when brought home put in crocks and 'soured'. Later boiled into a kind of porridge.
CHAMP
Finely mashed potatoes flavoured with vegetables like leeks, parsley etc.
"There was an old lady who lived in a lamp,
Who had no room to beetle her champ,
She up with her beetle and smashed the lamp,
And then she had room to beetle her champ".
Cited in Paterson's Armagh County Museum index, ARMACHIANA, Vol.18, p.5.
The Reverend Mattison explains his nickname, "The Cooking Cleric", in the accompanying recording.
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