Some of these main dishes have weird names like Toad-in-the-Hole and Bubble & Squeak. I could never ever live without all the traditional British foods! A week without something British makes my tummy hurt...!!
Good old Traditional British Food Dishes
Roast Beef And Yorkshire Pudding
Other names for this meal are Sunday dinner, Sunday lunch, Sunday tea, Cooked dinner, Roast dinner and maybe the most popular one is Sunday Roast.
It's a traditional family dinner, which is served on Sunday.
It's popular in United Kingdom, Ireland, Scotland, United States, New Zealand and in Canada as well.
If you're not a beef lover, you can always change it to chicken, pork or to lamb.
Toad-In-The-Hole (sausages covered in batter and roasted)
This dish is a traditional English dinner, that contains sausages in yorkshire pudding batter. It's very simple to make and it doesn't take a long time to make it. It's normally served with onion gravy and vegetables.
Yorkshire Pudding
Also known as "Batter Pudding". There's an area in England called Yorkshire and this food is named after it. This is very British.
Usually served with gravy and roast meat. Served as part of the Sunday Roast.
Fish And Chips
"Chippy" or "chipper" are modern British slang ways of saying "Fish and Chips".
It's a popular take-away food in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and some parts of United States. As you can see from the name, it consists of deep-fried chips served with fish which is battered and some vinegar. Some people like to eat it with other items such as tertare sauce or mushy peas.
The traditional way to eat your Fish and Chips is to have them wrapped in white paper and newspaper. Nowadays you have them in a white plastic(ish) container(the one in the picture). But you do still see some people eating them in a traditional way.
"Chippy" or "chipper" are modern British slang ways of saying "Fish and Chips".
It's a popular take-away food in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and some parts of United States. As you can see from the name, it consists of deep-fried chips served with fish which is battered and some vinegar. Some people like to eat it with other items such as tertare sauce or mushy peas.
The traditional way to eat your Fish and Chips is to have them wrapped in white paper and newspaper. Nowadays you have them in a white plastic(ish) container(the one in the picture). But you do still see some people eating them in a traditional way.
It's a very popular and traditional dish in Britain. It's basically a meat(lamb) pie with mashed potato and peas. Even though it's made with lamb, you can make it with other meats as well.
If you're a cheese lover, put some cheese on it.
And if you want a bit more taste to it, put some HP sauce on it (when it's ready and on your plate).
Cottage Pie
A popular dish in Britain. Basically made with vegetables and minced beef topped with mashed potato. It's a bit like Shepherd's Pie but with vegetables and minced beef.
Gammon Steak With Egg
Lancashire Hotpot
This dish is made from mutton or lamb and onion, topped with sliced (thin) potatoes. It originally comes from Lancashire, North West of England. Because it's so easy to prepare for a large number of people and it's not very expensive to make, it's sometimes served at parties in England.
Lancashire Hotpot
This dish is made from mutton or lamb and onion, topped with sliced (thin) potatoes. It originally comes from Lancashire, North West of England. Because it's so easy to prepare for a large number of people and it's not very expensive to make, it's sometimes served at parties in England.
Pie And Mash (With Parsley Liquor)
This dish is very traditional East End London meal and popular working-class food.
Some people like to put some parsley liquor on the mash.
Bubble And Sqeuak
This dish is a traditional English food, which is made from leftover vegetables and potatoes.
And it's often served with pickles or brown sauce or cold meat from the Sunday roast.
You can have it as part of a full English breakfast.
Full English Breakfast
This breakfast is much more than just a few pieces of toast or a yoghurt! A full English Breakfast is a real breakfast meal that normally has sausages, bacon, beans, a few pieces of toast, mushrooms, black pudding and eggs (and sometimes tomatos as well), often served with tea or coffee. It's very popular especially in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and in the UK.
Other common names for the dish include the fry-up, or bacon and eggs.
Bangers And Mash
A traditional British dish made of sausages and mashed potatoes. This dish is also known as sausages and mash. It's sometimes served with fried onions, onion gravy, peas and baked beans.
Black Pudding (blood pudding)
Black pudding, blood sausage or blood pudding is a type of sausage that has been made by dried blood or cooking blood. Depending on different countries, but you can use cattle, goat, pig and sheep blood. This sausage is part of Full English Breakfast.
I personally don't like this meat at all!
Bacon Roly-Poly
A traditional English specialty.
Cumberland Sausage
A traditional English sausage made from pork. Looks like a long rope.
This dish is very traditional East End London meal and popular working-class food.
Some people like to put some parsley liquor on the mash.
Bubble And Sqeuak
This dish is a traditional English food, which is made from leftover vegetables and potatoes.
And it's often served with pickles or brown sauce or cold meat from the Sunday roast.
You can have it as part of a full English breakfast.
Full English Breakfast
This breakfast is much more than just a few pieces of toast or a yoghurt! A full English Breakfast is a real breakfast meal that normally has sausages, bacon, beans, a few pieces of toast, mushrooms, black pudding and eggs (and sometimes tomatos as well), often served with tea or coffee. It's very popular especially in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and in the UK.
Other common names for the dish include the fry-up, or bacon and eggs.
Bangers And Mash
A traditional British dish made of sausages and mashed potatoes. This dish is also known as sausages and mash. It's sometimes served with fried onions, onion gravy, peas and baked beans.
Black Pudding (blood pudding)
Black pudding, blood sausage or blood pudding is a type of sausage that has been made by dried blood or cooking blood. Depending on different countries, but you can use cattle, goat, pig and sheep blood. This sausage is part of Full English Breakfast.
I personally don't like this meat at all!
Bacon Roly-Poly
A traditional English specialty.
Cumberland Sausage
A traditional English sausage made from pork. Looks like a long rope.
What Do You Normally Serve With Roast Meats?
With Pork:
- Pease Pudding
- Apple Sauce
- Roast Apples
- English Mustard
- Yorkshire Pudding
- Gravy
- Horseradish Sauce
- Mint Sauce
- Onion Sauce
- Red-Cullant Jelly
- Savoury Herb Pudding
Most Popular Vegetables and Vegetables
Peas
Carrots
Brussels Sprouts
Tomatoes
Bananas
Apples
Oranges
Mandarins
Favourite Children Meals:
Pizza
Pizza
Fish Fingers
Baked Beans On Toast
Desserts / Puddings
What is a pudding?
It's the dessert course of a meal. But not all puddings are sweet puddings, because some puddings are part of the main course like Black Pudding and Yorkshire Pudding.
There are more than just one way to say pudding, 'sweet', 'dessert' and 'afters'.
Cakes And Puddings In England?
There are more than just one way to say pudding, 'sweet', 'dessert' and 'afters'.
Cakes And Puddings In England?
Spotted Dick
(also known as 'spotted dog').
Normally served with either butter or custard and brown sugar.
(also known as 'spotted dog').
Normally served with either butter or custard and brown sugar.
Apple Crumble
Often served with ice cream, thick cream or custard.
Hasty Pudding
Custard
A thick, sweet, rich mixture. Often served with puddings and cakes.
Bakewell Pudding
Bread And Butter Pudding
Old English Pudding. Very popular.
Roly-Poly Pudding
Semolina Pudding
Jelly And Ice Cream
This is something you can often see at children's parties. Kids love it.
Treacle Pudding
Cakes:
Larde Cake
Parkin
The Victoria Sponge
Simnel Cake
English Crumpets
Lovely with a nice cuppa tea. Spread with preserves and butter.
Mince Pies
Very English.
small dainty cakes, scones, a selection of teas, and good old sandwiches.
Afternoon Tea is often served around 4pm.
What Does High Tea Consist Of?
High Tea often includes both cold and hot savoury snacks. Normally a selection of cheeses, scrambled eggs, smoked ham, sandwiches, toasted teacakes, fruit cake, honey and jams.
High Tea is often served around 6pm.
Some people have their biggest meal late in the evening and some have it middle of the day. But nowadays most people (especially young people) have a small/quick mid-day meal, usually a of packet of crisps and maybe a fruit or two, and sandwiches.
We Have Three Main Meals:
Breakfast - Between 6:30 and 9:00
Lunch - Between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
Dinner (also known as 'supper' and 'tea') - Between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Breakfast?
Do you really think that a normal/typical English breakfast consists of bacon, eggs, fried bread, mushrooms, sausages, baked beans, and all that served with a cup of coffee or tea?? Well, that's what most people around the world seem to think! Nowadays, a typical English breakfast is a slice of toast, a bowl of cereals, orange juice and a cup of coffee or tea.
In the winter time some people like to eat a bowl of porridge or boiled oats, because it's warm.
Lunch?
Many adults at work and children at school pack their own lunches 'packed lunch'. It's very simple and very British! It typically consists of a packet of crisps, a sandwich(for example: ham, pickle, prawn, mayonnaise and cheese), a fruit and a drink. Normally it's in a plastic container.
Sandwiches are also known as a 'sarnie' or 'butty'. Depends where in UK you're coming from.
Dinner?
It's an evening meal. Also known as 'supper' or 'tea'.
The traditional British dinner has changed over these years. Popular 'British dinner' is curry, believe it or not!
A typical British dinner consists of roast potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, and meat, and served with hot gravy. Yorkshire puddings are quite popular as well.
But a typical Sunday dinner is 'Sunday Roast'.
Some people say that coffee is now as popular in Britain as tea is, but I personally think that tea is still the most popular drink in Britain. But I do know is that Britain is a tea-drinking nation.
We drink around 165 million cups of tea every day, and around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported each year.
The traditional way to make tea is by using the teapot but nowaday we use an electric kettle to boil water. But there are still people(especially older people) that prefer the old traditional way to make tea.
Tea Words...
If someone comes up to you and asks you if you 'would like a cuppa', it means if you would like a cup of tea.
And don't get scared if someone comes up to you and says 'shall I be mother' or 'let me be mother', because they are just offering to pour out the tea from the teapot, that's all.
Old English Pudding. Very popular.
Roly-Poly Pudding
Semolina Pudding
Jelly And Ice Cream
This is something you can often see at children's parties. Kids love it.
Treacle Pudding
Cakes:
Larde Cake
Parkin
The Victoria Sponge
Simnel Cake
English Crumpets
Lovely with a nice cuppa tea. Spread with preserves and butter.
Mince Pies
Very English.
Afternoon Tea & High Tea
What Does Afternoon Tea Consist Of?small dainty cakes, scones, a selection of teas, and good old sandwiches.
Afternoon Tea is often served around 4pm.
What Does High Tea Consist Of?
High Tea often includes both cold and hot savoury snacks. Normally a selection of cheeses, scrambled eggs, smoked ham, sandwiches, toasted teacakes, fruit cake, honey and jams.
High Tea is often served around 6pm.
Meals
Meal Times And What They Include?Some people have their biggest meal late in the evening and some have it middle of the day. But nowadays most people (especially young people) have a small/quick mid-day meal, usually a of packet of crisps and maybe a fruit or two, and sandwiches.
We Have Three Main Meals:
Breakfast - Between 6:30 and 9:00
Lunch - Between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
Dinner (also known as 'supper' and 'tea') - Between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Breakfast?
Do you really think that a normal/typical English breakfast consists of bacon, eggs, fried bread, mushrooms, sausages, baked beans, and all that served with a cup of coffee or tea?? Well, that's what most people around the world seem to think! Nowadays, a typical English breakfast is a slice of toast, a bowl of cereals, orange juice and a cup of coffee or tea.
In the winter time some people like to eat a bowl of porridge or boiled oats, because it's warm.
Lunch?
Many adults at work and children at school pack their own lunches 'packed lunch'. It's very simple and very British! It typically consists of a packet of crisps, a sandwich(for example: ham, pickle, prawn, mayonnaise and cheese), a fruit and a drink. Normally it's in a plastic container.
Sandwiches are also known as a 'sarnie' or 'butty'. Depends where in UK you're coming from.
Dinner?
It's an evening meal. Also known as 'supper' or 'tea'.
The traditional British dinner has changed over these years. Popular 'British dinner' is curry, believe it or not!
A typical British dinner consists of roast potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, and meat, and served with hot gravy. Yorkshire puddings are quite popular as well.
But a typical Sunday dinner is 'Sunday Roast'.
Drinks
Tea And Coffee?Some people say that coffee is now as popular in Britain as tea is, but I personally think that tea is still the most popular drink in Britain. But I do know is that Britain is a tea-drinking nation.
We drink around 165 million cups of tea every day, and around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported each year.
The traditional way to make tea is by using the teapot but nowaday we use an electric kettle to boil water. But there are still people(especially older people) that prefer the old traditional way to make tea.
If someone comes up to you and asks you if you 'would like a cuppa', it means if you would like a cup of tea.
And don't get scared if someone comes up to you and says 'shall I be mother' or 'let me be mother', because they are just offering to pour out the tea from the teapot, that's all.
And if you don't really like something and it's not quite to your taste, it's probably 'not your cup of tea'.
There are quite many ways to call the moment when you're drinking tea, 'tea time', 'high tea', 'tea towel', 'tea break', 'tea party' and many other terms.
Most people in Britain like their tea dark and strong, and with milk.
There are quite many ways to call the moment when you're drinking tea, 'tea time', 'high tea', 'tea towel', 'tea break', 'tea party' and many other terms.
Most people in Britain like their tea dark and strong, and with milk.
British Tea Brands:
Alcohol?
Bitter: Well known drink in Britain. Heavier and darker than lager.
Wine: An alcohol made from fermented grapes or other fruits. There are more than just one type of wine, for example 'white wine', 'red wine', 'apple wine'.
Britain's wine industry is growing really fast. And now there are over 300 wine producers in Britain.
There are more than 100 wineyards in Kent.
Guinness: A popular Irish dry stout. One of the most successful beer brands worldwide.
Cocktail: An alcoholic mixed drink that has at least three ingredients, at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit. So called 'party drink'.
Lager: The most popular and favourite beer in the world.
Beer: An alcoholic drink. It's the world's most widely consumed alcoholic bevarage: it's the third-most popular drink after tea and water. Very popular drink in Britain.
Pies
Steak And Kidney Pie
A traditional English pie. This pastry is filled with onions, kidneys, chopped beef, beef stock and mushrooms.
Pork Pie
A traditional British meat pie. Consists of pork jelly and pork in a hot water crust pastry. Most people like to eat it cold.
Stargazy Pie
It's basically a pie with fish in it.
Cornish Pasty / Cornish Pastie
An oven-cooked pastry filled with beef mince or steak, and potato, swede and onion.
Blackberry Pie
Rhubarb Pie
Apple Pie
Cheeses?
Cheese is very popular in Britain.
There are many cheeses that are named after an area or a place where they've made the cheese in England.
They produce over 400 cheeses in England. And they all have unique textures and flavours.
The Romans introduced cheeses to England.
Cheddar
Red Leicester
Stilton
Double Gloucester
Cheshire
Traditional Foods Of Scotland And Wales?
SCOTLAND
Scottish Salmon
Black Bun
Scottish Beef
Scotch Broth Or Hotch-Potch
Colcannon
Bannock
Stovies
WALES
Bara Brith
Cawl
Welsh Rarebit
Welsh Cakes
Shops & Eating Out
According to www.guardian.co.uk, these are ten of the best UK coffee shops:
1. Opposite (Queen Victoria Street, Leeds): www.oppositecafe.co.uk
2. Tina We Salute You (47 King Henry's Walk, London) : www.tinawesaluteyou.com
3. Relish (Foundary Court, Wadebridge, Cornwall): www.relishwadebridge.co.uk
4. Red Roaster (1 St James's St, Brighton): www.redroaster.co.uk
5. Done Espresso (69 Long Lane, London): www.dose-espresso.com
6. Kilimanjaro (104 Nicolson St, Edinburgh): +44 (0)131 662 0135
7. Roasters Coffee (8 Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough): www.roasterscoffee.co.uk
8. The Apple Tree (Barton Marina, Burton-on-Trent): +44 (0)1283 712332
9. Coffee Aroma (Guildhall Street, Lincoln): www.coffeearoma.co.uk
10. Monmouth Coffee (26 Monmouth St, London): www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk
According to www.travel.yahoo.com, these are the top 10 restaurants to visit in Britain:
1. Dinner (66 Knightsbridge, London SW1): www.dinnerbyheston.com
2. The Ledbury (127 Ledbury Road, London W11): www.theledbury.com
3. Gidleigh Park ( +44(0)1647 432367): www.gidleigh.com
4. Le Gavroche (43 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1): www.le-gavroche.co.uk
5. Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons (Church Road, Great Milton, Oxford, OX44 7PD, England): www.manoir.com
6. The Waterside Inn ( Ferry Road, Bray, Berkshire): www.waterside-inn.co.uk
7. The Fat Duck (High Street, Bray, Berkshire): www.thefatduck.co.uk
8. Restaurant Sat Bains (Lenton Lane Nottingham NG7 2SA): www.restaurantsatbains.com
9. The Dining Room, Whatley Manor (Easton Grey Malmesbury Wiltshire SN16 0RB): www.whatleymanor.com
10. Restaurant Martin Wishart (54 The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland):
www.martin-wishart.co.uk
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