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Typical English Dishes

Appetizers

  • Angels on Horseback (Bacon-wrapped oysters)
  • Cucumber Sandwiches (Tea sandwiches)
  • Devils on Horseback (Bacon-wrapped prunes)
  • Kipper Paste (Fish spread)
  • Potted Shrimp (Spiced shrimp spread)
  • Wensleydale Tarts (Cheese tarts)

Soups & Stews

  • London Particular Soup (Split pea & ham soup)
  • Mulligatawny Soup (Curried chicken soup)

Salads

  • Coronation Chicken (Curried chicken salad)
  • Salmagundi (Cold poultry & vegetable salad)

Eggs & Dairy

  • Cheeses: Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton
  • Scrambled Eggs

Poultry

  • Country Captain (Chicken & apple curry)
  • Hindle Wakes (Chicken with stewed prunes & lemon sauce)
  • Lindisfarne Chicken (Chicken baked with mead)
  • Roast Goose with Apples & Prunes
  • Roast Turkey with Gravy (Holiday turkey)

Meats

  • Boiled Beef & Carrots (Cockney dinner)
  • Blood Pudding (Blood sausage)
  • Cornish Pasties (Beef & vegetables baked in pastry crust)
  • Lancashire Hot Pot (Lamb meat & kidneys baked with potatoes & mushrooms)
  • Jugged Hare (Hare or rabbit stew)
  • Liverpool Lobscouse (Sailor's beef stewed with potatoes & carrots)
  • Pork Pie (Pork baked in a pastry crust)
  • Roast Leg of Lamb with Mint Sauce
  • Roast Prime Rib (Roast rib of beef)
  • Shepherd's Pie (Ground lamb casserole with mashed potato topping)
  • Steak & Kidney Pie (Beef & kidneys backed in a pastry crust)
  • Toads-in-the-Hole (Sausages baked in batter)

Fish & Seafood

  • Fish & Chips (Batter-fried fish with fried potato wedges)
  • Dover Sole
  • Soused Mackerel (Pickled fish)
  • Jellied Eels (Eels in aspic)
  • Stargazey Pie (Fish baked in pastry crust)

Vegetables & Beans

  • Brussels Sprouts au Gratin (Brussels sprouts baked with cheddar cheese)
  • Bubble & Squeak (Fried potatoes & cabbage)
  • Creamed Parsnips
  • Mash of Nine Sorts (Puree of various vegetables)
  • Pan Haggerty (Cheesy potatoes)
  • Pease Pudding (Thick split peas)
  • Suffolk Red Cabbage (Sweet & sour braised red cabbage; see Blaukraut recipe)

Breads & Grains

  • Bath Buns (Sweet buns)
  • Cottage Loaf (Glazed white bread)
  • Crumpets (Pan-fried tea breads)
  • Fat Rascals (Yorkshire tea biscuit)
  • Granny Loaf (Fruitbread)
  • Kentish Huffkins (Dinner or tea buns)
  • Parkin (Molasses oatcakes)
  • Sage & Onion Stuffing
  • Stotty Cake (Hearth bread)
  • Yorkshire Pudding (English savory puff pudding)

Sauces

  • Bread Sauce
  • Cumberland Sauce (Redcurrant & citrus sauce for game)
  • Mint Sauce (Sauce for roast lamb)
  • Mustard Sauce
  • Parsley Sauce
  • Worcestershire Sauce (Tamarind-anchovy seasoning sauce)

Pickles & Preserves

  • Apple Chutney
  • Bramble Jam
  • Damson Cheese (Plum preserves)
  • Lemon Curd
  • Orange Marmelade
  • Piccalilli (Vegetable pickle)
  • Pickled Beets
  • Pickled Cabbage
  • Quince Jelly
  • Mincemeat (Dried fruit pie filling)

Desserts & Teacakes

  • Bakewell Tarts (Small jam-filled cakes)
  • Brandy Snaps (Crisp cookie)
  • Eccles Cakes (Fruit-filled pastries)
  • Fig Pie
  • Fool (Fruit puree mixed with whipped cream)
  • Jam & Custard Tarts
  • Lardy Cakes (Lard pastry stuffed with dried fruits)
  • Maids of Honor (Tea tarts with an almond custard)
  • Sally Lunn Cake (Spongecake)
  • Scones (Shortbread teacakes)
  • Spotted Dog (Steamed pudding with raisins)
  • Summer Pudding (Pudding of berries & bread)
  • Strawberries & Cream
  • Trifle (Layered cake & custard)
  • Victoria Sandwich (Jam-filled teacakes; see Maria Luisa recipe notes)
  • Wet Nelly (Bread pudding)

Beverages

  • Ale (Beer flavored with malt & hops)
  • Cider
  • Gin & Tonic
  • Mead (Honey wine)
  • Mulled Wine (Warm spiced wine)
  • Port
  • Sherry
  • Tea
  • Wassail Bowl (Christmas spiced ale & sherry)

Breakfast

  • Bacon (Smoked, cured pork belly)
  • Frumenty (Wheatberry porridge)
  • Scrambled Eggs