ENGLISH GASTRONOMY

English food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in England include the sandwich, fish and chips, pies like the cornish pasty, trifle and roasts dinners. Some of our main dishes have strange names like Bubble & Squeak, Spotted Dick and Toad-in-the-Hole. What may appear strange to our overseas visitors is that not all our puddings are sweet puddings, some are eaten during the starter or main course like Yorkshire Pudding and Black Pudding.The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of our dishes are based on these foods. Questions on British Food for Students to answer Match the photographs of different foods to their descriptions Vegetarians It is currently (2003) estimated that there are between 3 and 4 million vegetarians in the UK,one of the highest percentages in the western world.Around 7 million people claim to eat no red meat.It is now rare to find no vegetarian foods in a supermarket or on a restaurant menu. TYPICAL TRADITIONAL ENGLISH DISHES Christmas Dinner Traditional English dishes have had competition from other dishes over the years. Despite this, if you visit England, you will still be served up the traditional foods we have been eating for years.This page contains some of our most popular traditional dishes. Main meal dishes Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding This is England's traditional Sunday lunch, which is a family affair. Yorkshire Pudding This dish is not usually eaten as a dessert like other puddings but instead as part of the main course or at a starter.Yorkshire pudding, made from flour, eggs and milk, is a sort of batter baked in the oven and usually moistened with gravy. Recipe The traditional way to eat a Yorkshire pudding is to have a large, flat one filled with gravy and vegetables as a starter of the meal. Then when the meal is over, any unused puddings should be served with jam or ice-cream as a dessert. Toad-in-the-Hole (sausages covered in batter and roasted.) Similar to Yorkshire Pudding but with sausages placed in the batter before cooking. (See photo right) Roast Meats ( cooked in the oven for about two hours) Typical meats for roasting are joints of beef, pork, lamb or a whole chicken. More rarely duck, goose, gammon, turkey or game are eaten. Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce. referat.clopotel.ro

These three platefuls of food were served up in a pub. I would say that they are enormous portions and not what a typical British person would eat in one sitting. Steak and Kidney Pie with chips and salad Cornish Pastie with chips, baked beans and salad Chicken Salad Fish and chips Fish (cod, haddock, huss, plaice) deep fried in flour batter with chips (fried potatoes) dressed in malt vinegar.This is England's traditional take-away food or as US would say "to go".Fish and chips are not normally home cooked but bought at a fish and chip shop ("chippie" ) to eat on premises or as a "take away" Ploughman's Lunch (a piece of cheese, a bit of pickle and pickled onion, and a chunk of bread) This dish is served in Pubs .See a sample menu of food served in pubs .Shepherds Pie (made with minced lamb and vegetables topped with mashed potato)Recipe Cottage Pie (made with minced beef and vegetables topped with mashed potato. (Pictured right)) Gammon Steak with egg (Gammon is ham) What is a Pudding ?A pudding is the dessert course of a meal ('pud' is used informally). In Britain, we also use the words 'dessert, 'sweet" and 'afters'. What's for pudding? ........ What's for afters? ........ What's for dessert?For more of the words we use, visit our British Words section. Take care! Not all our puddings are sweet puddings, some are eaten during the starter or main course like Yorkshire Pudding and Black Pudding. Puddings and Cakes in England There are hundreds of variations of sweet puddings in England but each pudding begins with the same basic ingredients of milk,sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Many of the puddings involve fresh fruit such as raspberries or strawberries, custard, cream, and cakes. ......... a moment later the puddings appeared. Blocks of ice cream in every flavour you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts,trifle, strawberries, jelly, rice pudding ......Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling The more traditional and well known home-made puddings are rhubarb crumble, bread and butter pudding, spotted dick and trifle. The traditional accompaniment is custard, known as creme anglaise (English sauce) to the French. The dishes are simple and traditional, with recipes passed on from generation to generation. Sample menu of puddings served in British restuarants Favourites include:Spotted Dick (Also called Spotted Dog) Sponge pudding with sultanas and raisins.Where does this strange name come from? Recipe Trifle - made with layers of sponge cake altternate with custard, jam or fruit and Whipped Cream. Sometimes alcohol-soaked sponge cake is used.

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Recipe Hasty Pudding - A simple and quick (thus the name) steamed pudding of milk, flour,butter,eggs, and cinnamon. Bakewell pudding - also called Bakewell Tart.Recipe.Custard - a thick, rich, sweet mixture made by gently cooking together egg yolks, sugar, milk or cream, and sometimes other flavorings. Most people today use a yellow powder mixed with milk, water and sugar. Custard can be served as a hot sauce, poured over a dessert, or as a cold layer in, for example, a trifle. When it is cold, it 'sets' and becomes firm. Bread and butter pudding - old English favourite (see image) Recipe.Semolina Pudding - a smooth, creamy puddmade of milk, eggs, flavouring and sugaring. Semolina is cooked slowly in milk, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with vanilla and sometimes enriched with egg. Semolina pudding can be served with raisins, currants or sultanas stirred in or with a dollop of jam. Roly-poly - A pudding made of jam or fruit rolled up in pastry dough and baked or steamed until soft. Recipe English Crumpets - tasty "muffin" that goes great with tea, and spread with butter and preserves. Mince Pies - Pastry shells filled with mince meat, and sometimes brandy or rum. Treacle pudding - a steamed pudding with a syrup topping. Jelly and Ice Cream - A favourite party food for children. MEALS and MEAL TIMES Some people have their biggest meal in the middle of the day and some have it in the evening, but most people today have a small mid-day meal - usually sandwiches, and perhaps some crisps and some fruit. We have three main meals a day: Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal) Traditionally, and for some people still, the meals are called: Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Dinner (The main meal) - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Tea - anywhere from 5:30 at night to 6:30 p.m. On Sundays the main meal of the day is often eaten at midday instead of in the evening. This meal usually is a Roast Dinner consisting of a roast meat, Yorkshire pudding and two kinds of vegetables. BREAKFAST What is a typical English Breakfast? Most people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Nowa days, however, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee. The Traditional English Breakfast without the fried bread. The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always served in hotels and guest houses around Britain. The traditional English breakfast is called the Full English and sometimes referred to as The Full English Fry-up.

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Many people, especially children, in England will eat a bowl of cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc. In the winter many people will eat "porridge" or boiled oats. LUNCH What is a typical English lunch?

DINNER Many children at school and adults at work will have a 'packed lunch'. This typically consists of a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. The 'packed lunch' is kept in a plastic container. Sandwiches are also known as a butty or sarnie in some parts of the UK. My favourite sandwich is prawn and mayonaise. I also love tuna and mayonaise and ham and pickle sandwiches. The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'. What is a traditional English Dinner? A typical British meal for dinner is meat and "two veg". We put hot brown gravy, traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat (but more often today from a packet!) on the meat and usally the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. This traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, a recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta are now favoured as the 'British Dinner'. Vegetables grown in England, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are still very popular. We can also buy vegetables from many countries all through the year The Sunday Roast Dinner Sunday lunch time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast. Traditionally it consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular. Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce. Gravy is poured over the meat. AFTERNOON TEA (The traditional 4 o'clock tea) This is a small meal, not a drink. Traditionally it consists of Tea (or coffee) served with either of the following: Scones Freshly baked scones served with cream and jam (Known as a cream tea) Afternoon tea sandwiches often thinly sliced cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off. Assorted pastries Today British families do not have time for afternoon tea at home, but in the past it was a tradition. It became popular about one hundred and fifty years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon everyone was enjoying Afternoon tea. HIGH TEA (The traditional 6 o'clock tea) The British working population did not have Afternoon Tea. They had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven o'clock. This meal was called 'high tea' or just 'tea'. (Today, most people refer to the evening meal as dinner or supper.)

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Traditionally eaten early evening, High tea was a substantial meal that combined delicious sweet foods, such as scones, cakes, buns or tea breads, with tempting savouries, such as cheese on toast, toasted crumpets, cold meats and pickles or poached eggs on toast. This meal is now often replaced with a supper due to people eating their main meal in the evenings rather than at midday. Crumpets Recipe DRINKS Tea Britain is a tea-drinking nation. Every day we drink 165 million cups of the stuff and each year around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported. Tea in Britain is traditionally brewed in a warmed china teapot, adding one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot. Most Britons like their tea strong and dark, but with a lot of milk. Years ago, the milk was poured into the cup first, so as not to crack the porcelain. The traditional way of making tea is: 1. Boil some fresh cold water. (We use an electric kettle to boil water) 2. Put some hot water into the teapot to make it warm. 3. Pour the water away 4. Put one teaspoon of tea-leaves per person, and one extra tea-spoon, into the pot. 5. Pour boiling water onto the tea. 6. Leave for a few minutes. 7. Serve

Did you know? If someone asks you if you would like a cuppa, they are asking if you would like a cup of tea. If someone says 'let me be mother' or 'shall I be mother', they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot. Tea Words and phrases Tea break, High tea, tea time, tea party, tea towel and many more terms have derived from the tradition of drinking tea. Tea breaks are when tea and biscuits are served. The traditional time for tea breaks are at 11:00 am (Elevensee) and 4 pm in the afternoon. If something is not quite to your taste, it's probably not your cup of tea. Coffee Coffee is now as popular in Britain as tea is. People either drink it with milk or have it black and either have freshly- made coffee or instant coffee. Bitter Britain is also well known for its ale which tends to be dark in appearance and heavier than lager. It is known as "bitter" Wine Britain's wine industry is growing from strength to strength and we now have over 300 wine producers. A growing number of British vineyards are now producing sparkling white wine as well as full bodied red wine. There are over 100 vineyard in Kent. What food was "invented" or discovered in England? 1762: The sandwich was invented in England. We have a town named Sandwich in the south of England. John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich invented a small meal that could be eaten with one hand while he continued his nonstop gambling.

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1902: Marmite was invented in England. Marmite is dark brown-colored savory spread made from the yeast that is a by-product of the brewing industry. It has a very strong, slightly salty flavor. It is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it type of food. Mincemeat was invented in England as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking it. HP Sauce was invented in England at the end of the 19th century by Mr FG Garton, a Nottingham grocer. He was down on his luck and couldn't pay his bills, so when Edwin Samson Moore, owner of the Midland Vinegar Company, offered to cancel his debt with the company and pay him L150 for the recipe, plus the use of the name HP, Garton jumped at the chance. Moore had been looking around for some time for a sauce to manufacture and market. He liked both the taste and the name of Garton's HP Sauce, which had an appropriately patriotic ring to it. The HP stood for Houses of Parliament, as it was rumoured that the sauce had been seen gracing the tables of one of the dining rooms there.

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