England: Recipes and Cuisine

A list of typical English dishes and foods. Use it to help you plan a English-style meal, party or festival.

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 and Stews

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

Salads

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

Eggs and Dairy

• Cheeses: Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton
• Scrambled Eggs

Poultry

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

Meats

• Bangers and Mash (Sausages with mashed potatoes)
• Boiled Beef and Carrots (Cockney dinner)
• Blood Pudding (Blood sausage)
• Cornish Pasties (Beef and vegetables baked in pastry crust)
• Lancashire Hot Pot (Lamb meat and kidneys baked with potatoes and mushrooms)
• Jugged Hare (Hare or rabbit stew)
• Liverpool Lobscouse (Sailor's beef stewed with potatoes and 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 and Kidney Pie (Beef and kidneys backed in a pastry crust)
• Toad-in-the-Hole (Sausages baked in batter)

Fish and Seafood

• Fish and 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 and Beans

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

Breads and 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 and Onion Stuffing
• Stotty Cake (Hearth bread)
• Yorkshire Pudding (English savory puff pudding)

Sauces

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

Pickles and 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 and 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 and 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 and bread)
• Strawberries and Cream
• Trifle (Layered cake and custard)
• Victoria Sandwich (Jam-filled teacakes)
• Wet Nelly (Bread pudding)

Beverages

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

Breakfast

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