Recipes from home

This week, a recipe for the cheese and onion tart of my childhood, the quiche Lorraine of South Durham, the pitman’s madeleine.

I been in England for a couple of weeks, in London and Country Durham and Yorkshire, so there’s no market haul this week. Instead, I am sharing this taste of my northern childhood, my pitman’s madeleine.

At birthday parties, church fêtes and cricket teas, cheese and onion tart held its own on tables crowded with sausages on sticks, mushroom vol-au-vents,…