Need help with english food!
Filip Unevik
filun01@hotmail.com
03/10/04 		Hi! I'm a 13 year old student in Sweden. We are going to know a couple of typical brittish food meals. It is a starter, the dinner itself and a dessert, all typical brittish. I would really enjoy if anyone of you persons out there could send me a email if you know any good meals. Thank you!
ellen

04/02/04 		Hi, Filip,

Sorry for the delay!

Since Elizabethan times, the English diet has emphasized roasted meats, root vegetables and heavy desserts such as steamed puddings. A very typical meal might include roast beef, roasted potatoes, boiled carrots, boiled brussel sprouts or cabbagw, rolls and butter, and a steamed date pudding. A TYPICAL 'PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH IS BREAD AND BUTTER, CHEESE, GRILLED SOUSAGE, AND sWEET PICKLED VEGETABLES WITH MUSTARD.

But probably a lot more fun for your class would be an English afternoon tea, with little sandwiches, cookies and cakes, and lots of hot blasck tea with sugar and milk or lemon. There are a lot of stes about English tea, al;so called high tea. God luck. Ellen

elisa
catita11@iol.pt
05/06/04 		please helpe me to find at least two types of typical english sandwiches. thank you
ellen

05/09/04 		Check out the new page on big pots about planning sandwich event. All the cream cheese sandwiches are very English and egg salad, minced ham, etc, Also plain, thinly sliced peeled cuke on buttered bread, for example, tuna salad, etc.

Ellen

matt k. draper

06/21/04 		some typical english deserts are homemade devonshire apple pie or if that doesn't tickle your fancy then try some blackberry and apple struddle
matthew draper

06/21/04 		a good british dessert is summer pudding with clotted cream which is from devon shire or steak and kidney pudding with mashed potato with smoked kipper pate as a starter
simon spalding

06/21/04 		cNowhere else in the world can the spirit of the Holy Resurrection of Christ be felt as it is expressed in Greece. All the preparations for Easter: the characteristic foods of this important holiday, the Red-Colored Eggs, the Arni sti Souvla (Lamb on the Spit), the Kokoretsi (Lamb Entrails Grilled on the Spit), the Mayeritsa (Easter Soup),together with the cheerful tolling of the bells, the liturgy in church, the pure white candles with their flames dancing in unison, all this and more, make one feel from within the uniqueness and magnificence of this feast. Easter is the feast that, more than any other, makes the migrating Greeks return to their homeland to roast the lamb on the spit and to crack the red Easter eggs with their families.
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Charlene
Thomastbs3@aol.com
08/25/04 		I have been searching for a sheperd's pie
recipe.I think my husband would really like
it. Thank you
ellen

08/25/04 		Shepard;s Pie is a beef or mutton stew, or some people use a "mince" or hamburger stew in brown gravy with the veggies cut up rather small. It is put in a casserole dish, covered with either spoonfuls of mashed potatoe or raw biscuits, then baked until everything is really hot and the top has some nice browning going on, about 45 minutes.
ben
hamishkiller@hotmail.com
04/12/05 		help

i am a young chef working in italy they want me to cook more typical english dishes i have already done battered fich, toad in the hole , yorkshire pudds, bread and butter pudding what can i try next that would impress them

ellen

04/13/05 		Is this for a family or for a restaurant? and what meal?
Tracy
nkosulandich@centurytel.net
09/26/05 		Need help finding apple strudel recipes
Please help me I can't find any recipes but one.
Susan
circle4peace@yahoo.com
09/26/05 		I found a recipe that is rated 4 stars out of 5 ... called easy apple strudel on allrecipes.com. I e-mailed to you ... hope that's ok. :)
jacqui andrews

09/27/05 		I am living in France and a French friend has to cook a typically english meal for 160 people. Starter,Main course and pudding. Big problem here is that you cant get many of the English ingredients in France! and also opf course the sheer number of people who will be eating. Any ideas please?
ellen

09/27/05 		You need an English meal that the French eaters can enjoy! All the suggestions below can be made with Frenchly available ingredients.

For dessert, first things first, either bread and butter pudding or rice pudding. A rum and butter suace, raisin sauce, caramel sauce or brandy sauce would be authentic. I would use brioche or challah for the bread pudding. Baked apples would be an alternative, or "spotted dog", steamed suet pudding with custard sauce.

For a starter, it is fall/winter, and soup is ideal. Mulligatawney soup, which is basically chicken and rice soup with a little curry powder, would be fine, tomato broth also typical. Many recipes on the web. Otherwise something on toast, perhaps sardines, or shrimps.

For the main course, roast meat. A roast beef with roasted potatoes, carrots, and onions would be very authentic. If watching the budget, I would use top round, roasted low and slow- about 250 degrees. A Yorkshire pudding, which is basically a giant eggy popover, would be exactly ricght with it, and either Brussel sprouts or diced steamed turnips would be natural.

Roast chicken, or a shepard's pie, beef ragout aked in a crust, would be equaly correct. An alternative would be a grilled plate with a small sausage, a lamb chop and a broiled tomato, with a potato dish on the side.