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I have been twice in the UK, just visiting, and I loved a breakfast with beans because is one of my favourite foods, having eaten a variety of beans in Spain, Mexico and that time in the UK. I wonder which is the traditional food of the UK (not indian food or from other countries, just UK, made in the UK).
Bangers and mash, sausages with mashed potatoes (or is it mashed turnips?)
One of the garden shops served a delicious baked potato stuffed with coleslaw.
Shepherds pie, ground meat, onions, peas and carrots, lots of gravy topped with a mashed potato crust and then browned in the oven. Excuse me, that ground meat is called "mince"
Pork pie, individual pies in a traditional tall shape stuffed with a ground meat filling
Baked beans on toast, apparently a British favorite but it seems odd to Americans.
Cornish pasties, ooh, my favorite, a meat turnover stuffed with ground meat, grated turnips, onion. I miss those.
Bubble and squeak, basically fried leftover mashed potatoes or neeps with cabbage and what ever other veggies were leftover.
In Scotland, we could get grouse, quail, and venison in the restaurants, and wild boar is farmed as is salmon.
Don't forget Coronation Chicken
Recipes for all are generously available online.
Last edited by oregonwoodsmoke; 08-27-2017 at 03:24 PM..
Bangers and mash, sausages with mashed potatoes (or is it mashed turnips?)
Also the Northern Irish version, which is champ - which I love too.
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
One of the garden shops served a delicious baked potato stuffed with coleslaw.
If you get to Costco in the UK - or Booths for that matter if you live in Lancashire - they do a belting jacket potato for sod all. The canteen at Costco will do you a jacket potato with two fillings for £2. Flaming massive.
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
Pork pie, individual pies in a traditional tall shape stuffed with a ground meat filling
Best place for this is the pie shop at Skippy. There is a decent pie shop at Garstang, but I don't think it matches up. :-)
I wonder which is the traditional food of the UK (not indian food or from other countries, just UK, made in the UK).
Some foods have foreign origins but were actually heavily adapted for the UK market.
For example, there is a dispute as to whether chicken tikka masala actually came from the Punjab or was actually created in a Scottish kitchen.
A chicken tikka masala in the UK is very different from what Indians and Pakistanis would eat.
A Madeira cake, for example, did not come from Madeira but is called "Madeira cake" because the popular Madeira wine was often served with the cake.
Scouse is heavily associated with Liverpool and has been for a long time but its origins are in Northern Europe.
Knickerbocker glory has its origins in New York, and was served in New York restaurants in the 1920s but the recipe was taken to England where it became popular ever since. Knickerbocker glory in the U.S. completely disappeared soon after and it's only really known in the UK.
Kedgeree is also considered a British dish, but its origins lie in British India. The dish came to Victorian Britain via reurning British colonials and changed dramatically from what it originally was.
Shepherds pie, ground meat, onions, peas and carrots, lots of gravy topped with a mashed potato crust and then browned in the oven. Excuse me, that ground meat is called "mince"
To correct a misunderstanding.
Shepherds pie requires some form of sheep, lamb or mutton, although I think you might be able to squeak goat in under the bar too. The same without sheep would be Cottage Pie, so the description above of ground beef is for Cottage Pie not Shepherds Pie. You'll notice the association shepherd and sheep or lamb, there is no such association of Shepherd and cow or beef and makes no sense, why would a Shepherd make a pie from beef, when as a shepherd he has apparently a flock of sheep (a shepherd without a flock is known as a person), thus easy access to sheep meat.
I don't care that Martha Stewart or whoever says ground beef is Shepherds pie, the truth and my crusade is to return Shepherds Pie to being correctly made with lamb or mutton, and to stop misnaming Cottage Pie as Shepherds.
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