Bedfordshire clanger episode 8 of Series 8 of "The Great British Bake Off". Bedfordshire clanger The Bedfordshire clanger, also called the Hertfordshire clanger, Trowley Dumpling, or simply the clanger, is a dish from Bedfordshire and adjacent counties in England, such as Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. It dates back to at least the 19th century. The word "clanger" is related to the dialect term "clung", which Joseph Wright glossed as meaning "heavy", in relation to food. The clanger is an elongated suet crust dumpling, sometimes described as a savoury type of roly-poly pudding. It was traditionally boiled in a cloth like other suet puddings,
Pie Pie A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies are defined by their crusts. A "filled" pie (also "single-crust" or "bottom-crust"), has pastry lining the baking dish, and the filling is placed on top of the pastry but left open. A "top-crust" pie has the filling in the bottom of the dish and is covered with a pastry or other covering before baking. A "two-crust" pie has the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Shortcrust pastry is a