Easy, typically British recipies ;)

[winky2]

Please help :)
I need to prepare some British food for a British day in our school.
Have you got any ideas??? It should be something easy and served
cold.

Thanks a lot and best regards.

[seth.destructor]

There is an article and following it you'll find the recipes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine

[jonathan.oakley]

How about bangers and mash? Please see below:
www.channel4.com/food/recipes/popular-cuisines/british/bangers-and-mash-with-mustard-gravy-and-apple-
wedges-recipe_p_1.html

[pani.serwusowa]

I have got some British stuff in my Photo Gallery:
fotoforum.gazeta.pl/5,2,pani.serwusowa.html
Sausage&mash, few pies, healthy fish&chips ;> and Queen Mother's favourite cake
recipe with walnuts and dates - yummy! :)

[pani.serwusowa]

Here is selection of some british meals I have made:
fotoforum.gazeta.pl/uk/angielskie,pani.serwusowa.html

[jonathan.oakley]

That's an impressive range of meals! What do you think about British
food? What's your favourite dish and why?

[pani.serwusowa]

Thank you! :)

Like in any cuisine there are great meals and rubbish ones. ;p I
live in North Yorkshire National Park so I quite enjoy local game. I
do like rabbit casserole, pheasant breast wrapped in bacon or
venison steak.

Also I like fish & chips but I have it only when at the seaside.
Twice a year I go to Scarborough or Whitby and enjoy freshly caught
fish. Yummy! :) But I have to admit that the best fish & chips ever
I had last summer in Kirkwall, Orkney.

[Gość: lunaikinga]

Definitely fish & chips! I also like yorkshire pudding, even on its
own.

[Gość: Steve]

Easy and cold?

"Ploughman's lunch" - basically a chunk of yellow cheese and and a chunk of
buttered bread, although the modern version (from the 1950s of 60s) has a brown
or yellow/mustard pickle, which is difficult to get outside expensive shops in
Poland. To make it look more interesting, whilst still authentic, add pickled
onions and/or gherkins. My Mum's version (from the 1960s) added sliced ham, a
boiled egg, tomato and fresh cucumber.

The actual phrase 'ploughman's lunch' is said to derive from an advertising
campaign for cheese in the 1950s. Remembering my Mum's use, so sounds plausible,
but it may be much older. As far as I am concerned, this disproves the theory
that it is a pub invention, as suggested in some places. The phrase 'a lunch for
a ploughman' can be traced in literature back to 1837. As a traditional food, it
is simply the type of meal that an agricultural worker (not necessarily a
ploughman) would have in the field (and not in the pub as you might see on the
internet). It would often be brought to him, but in harvest time everyone (women
and children included) would be in the fields so it might be taken in the
morning. Pan Tadeusz describes the situation, which would be pretty much the
same in Lithuania as in Britain. You can therefore link British tradition into
Polish custom.

[Gość: Steve]

Sorry, but the 1837 reference is direct use of 'ploughman's lunch', but is
thought to be a shorted version of ' a lunch for...'.

[pani.serwusowa]

"Ploughman's" is one of my favourites. It is all correct what you
written, although I prefer more "posh" version of this tradutional
dish: 3 types of cheese, pickle (my favourite is red onion pickle),
side salad, some fresh fruits like strawberries or chunks of apple,
homemade bread and some butter. :) Everything that I love. ;)

[Gość: Steve]

Strawberries are new to me, but I remember a time (possibly in the early 80s)
when apple and cheese (especially stilton) suddenly became very 'fashionable' as
a combination. A 'ploughman' might well have been as familiar with it in his
time as a company chairman I once met was in his. Grapes and walnuts came later.

However, I do think us guardians of the English language (or at least of South
London jargon and prejudice) need to draw the line somewhere. 'Ploughmans'
became popular (arguably) in homes, tea houses and pubs as a quick alternative
to the summer boredom of salad served everyday at least once a day. Big chunks
were served in a couple of minutes so no time was wasted slicing everything and
the idea of peeling was limited to eggs and not cucumber. You actually used your
teeth to eat. Most important: no lettuce. Once you have lettuce, you have salad.
We hated salad.

OK, I'm not quite old enough to represent tradition, but I wanted to give an
example of standard English narrow mindedness. (It is my honest opinion,
however. You might also note that I misspelled ploughman's earlier, but I
wonder...)

[pani.serwusowa]

Yes, apple and cheese, like stilton or Yorkshire Blue is very good
combination. Try it with grapes too - it works really well! I have
to admit that I did not realise that in UK is such a great variety
of cheese. I love British cheese and luckily I live in area where I
can get great, locally produced cheese. :)