... your guide to local, seasonal and speciality food & drink.

Lucy's of Ambleside: Gluten-free chocolate cake, £6.50.

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: All-day breakfast pie - bacon, black pudding, beans, egg & sausage, £1.60.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Fresh British pumpkin and marrow, 60p per kilo. Also range of gourds, £1.50 per kilo.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: The Black Farmer cracked pepper sauce, good with meat, fish or vegetables. £3.50 per 280g jar.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Duck breast, £10.50 per kilo.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Red hot peppers stuffed with feta and myzithra cheese in sunflower oil, £4.50 per 400g.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: Local organic leeks, £2.09 per kilo.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Vale of Lune half lambs, £27.50 each.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: Four-boned rack of lamb, oven ready in mint marinade, £3.80 per lb.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Pickling onions, 89p per kilo; pickling spice, 35p per 100g; pickling vinegar, £1.50 for 2 litres.

Oddbins, Kendal: Delbeck champagne, £21.99.