Similar to the American food thread, what about British food? ?

My daughter bought Pearce Duff from Amazon a couple of years ago and we split the order, but the flavours available were very limited. I just can't understand why it is only available through Third Party Sellers on Amazon.

Someone suggested it might have been replaced in popularity by Cheesecake. Now, I love real cheesecake (not the American version, but the 10,000 calories a mouthful, stick to the inside of the mouth stuff) but it is hard to come by - and useless for topping a trifle!

Do not forget that English cookery goes back much further than the stodgy horrors of Victorian England. Try looking at some of the receipes in medieval and Tudor cook books which have some lovely flavourful dishes

vegansrock

I wouldn't make a hot steamed pudding for an Australian buffet - wouldn't get many takers methinks. Noone eats them anymore in the UK do they? A trifle or a jelly ( yuk) might be better or a plate of digestives . Lets face it, most British food doesn't travel well, most people here would rather have a curry or sushi rhan a hotpot these days.

Have you looked at a dessert menu recently vegansrock? No menu is complete if it does not offer Sticky toffee pudding, and a lot of other similar dishes, crumbles of all types, not to mention chocolate brownies. You are usually offered ice cream or custard and a lot of people go for the custard option.

nanna8

Some good ideas, thanks. I have made bread and butter puds with our fruit loaf and it is very nice - especially if you add cinnamon. Easy too a!

Oh good!

I do miss the raisin loaf from Coles or Woolworth's! 😁
The fruit loaf in the UK is all right but just not the same.

Apple crumble
Apple pie
Spotted Dick
Bread and butter
Christmas Pudding (Of course)
Trifle
Eton Mess
Lemon meringue pie
Curd tart
Custard tart

To name a few … 😁

Bread and butter pudding that should say.
Oh, and rice pudding.

I’m going German today and making a stollen.😊

Trifle ( I make mine without jelly) is British, I would say, not particularly regional. My family likes bread and butter pudding, lemon meringue pie, Eton mess, and crumble.
Is macaroni cheese British - I'm a vegetarian and I make this regularly.
All milk puddings - rice, tapioca, semolina, are the work of the devil, in my opinion, and were the much loathed feature of my childhood: oddly, rice pudding was offered as dessert several times when I visited Cuba.

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Apple Pie, lemon meringue pie, Dorset apple cake, summer pudding, treacle sponge.

Dorset apple cake

I'd forgotten that, GoodAfternoonTea
One I used to make with Bramleys from our tree. It is delicious.

Coconut jam sponge, Eve"s pudding, Queen of puddings, Chocolate up and over Pudding.

And good custard!

I just looked up Dorset apple cake ,it looks lovely and easy,too so thanks for that Goodafternoontea Can’t get Bramleys but I’ll use some different ones.

It's true witzend even here in the depths of rural France many restaurants serve le crumble also fish and chips is on many menus now.

I wonder if anyone remembers Caramel pudding. (I loved it as a child in the 50s). Not the slimy wet one, but the one that came out exactly like blancmange, but nicer. It formed a skin on top, and to my mind, was the best dessert in the world! Needless to say, it got discontinued.

How about a clootie dumpling? Can feed a lot of folks. Serve warm on its own or with custard.

what British food ?

Reading all these posts will show you several, and there are numeraous other regional delicacies which certainly are not "wishing to lose the contest"

i made eccles cakes once - very easy and very yummy!

Chelsea buns? Slightly more complicated recipe than a straight sponge cake.

JamesandJon33

It’s a Griddle cake*nanna8*. A girdle is something other. If you are doing z Welsh, cawl is good. A stew of lamb’s neck, carrots ,leeks, celery and potatoes.

It all depends on which part if the country you are in, both girdle or griddle are correct.

Thunder and Lightning is another way of serving Cornish scones. Black Treacle and clotted cream. Very delicious.

What about Cornish splits or yeast buns ? Plenty of recipes on t'internet.

KKOB

What about Cornish splits or yeast buns ? Plenty of recipes on t'internet.

Saffron cake!
With Cornish butter.

My mum used to make Maids of Honour and Manchester Tart