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Glossary of typical English food 10 form

Baked Beans Baked beans are beans cooked in a tomato sauce. They come in cans and are normally eaten on toast. The British are very fond of baked beans.

Bangers and Mash This is mashed potatoes with sausages in gravy. Gravy is a type of meat sauce made by mixing the meat juices with some corn flour. In Britain it is very common to use products to make gravy such as Bistro which is corn flour and gravy browning. This has recently been superceded by gravy granules which are easier to use. If not enough flavour can be obtained from the meat it is normal to add an `oxo` cube. Oxo is a popular type of stock cube.

Black Pudding A thick sausage made with blood and fat. There are similar sausage in other countries but black pudding has very little filling such as rice or bread and is almost all blood and fat.

Yorkshire Pudding A batter made with flour, eggs and milk and cooked in the oven. This is most often eaten with roast beef for Sunday lunch. ( Batter is the same mixture that is used to make pancakes).

Ploughman`s Lunch This is very popular thing to eat if you go to eat in a `pub` at midday. It normally consists of a bread roll with a piece of cheese and a pickled onion. By the way there are many very good pickles that you can buy at the supermarket for example ` branston pickle`.Branston Pickle is not sold in any other countries but it is the perfect companion to cheese. ( I always buy a jar when I go to England ). British cheeses are very good. The most famous is Cheddar. Most of cheeses are named after the region from where they come from e.g. Red Leicester, Cheshire etc. There is a very good British blue cheese called Stilton although it can be rather expensive. Another very British addition to a Ploughman`s is Pickled Walnuts.

Haggis This is only normally eaten in Scotland. It is sheep`s intestine stuffed with meat and vegetables.

Fish and Chip Shop You will almost certainly go to a fish and chip shop when you visit Britain. It is a shop which cooks fried potatoes called chips. They are usually accompanied by fish, pies, mushy peas, etc. The chips used to be wrapped in newspaper but now white paper is used. They often ask if you want salt and vinegar to be sprinkled over your chips. Be careful because sometimes they give you too much.

The Full English Breakfast This is very hearty breakfast and it consists of bacon, eggs, fried bread, baked beans, fried or scrambled eggs, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, toast etc. If you stay in a bed and breakfast or a hotel you will normally be offered a ` Full English`. Be warned that if you eat this everyday you will most likely put on a lot of weight.

Pie A pie is some food surrounded by pastry ( pastry is a mixture of flour and butter). It is normally baked in the oven. The content of the pie can be sweet or savoury. Typical examples of pies are `steak and kidney pie` or `apple pie`. There are variations of the pie such as cornish pasties Pasties were originally. invented so that working men could take their food to work with them. Someone told me that miners in the Cornish tin mines invented the cornish pastie. I suppose that if you work in a mine it is too much trouble to come to the surface to have lunch.

Bread and Butter When the British eat the bread they almost always cover it with butter or margarine. It is very common to see the plate of bread and butter on table when you eat. You can use it to soak up the gravy or juices left on your plate.

British Bread British bread is very good and if you go to the baker there are many different types of bread to choose from. However, although the bread is very good, the almost popular type of bread in Britain is sliced white bread. This is sold in plastic packets and is not half as good as the bread which you must cut yourself.

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