Dinner
Beer-Battered Fish and Chips
Beer batter that shatters, chips with a fluffy interior, and a proper mushy pea and tartare sauce alongside. The…
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Dinner
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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Holiday Specials
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings
A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…
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Baking
English Scones
Tall, straight-sided scones that split cleanly by hand rather than needing a knife. Cold butter, a light hand and a…
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Baking
Lemon Drizzle Cake
A plain loaf cake pierced all over while still hot and drenched in lemon and sugar, which soaks in and then sets…
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Desserts
Sticky Toffee Pudding
A dark, date-sweetened sponge drenched in toffee sauce and served with cream. Blitzing the dates into a purée is…
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Baking
Victoria Sponge
Two golden sponge layers with jam and cream between, dusted with caster sugar. Named for a queen who took it with…
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Dinner
Cottage Pie
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
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Dinner
Steak and Ale Pie
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
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Breakfast
Full English Breakfast
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
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Baking
Scottish Shortbread
Three ingredients in the proportion one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour, baked pale and cut while…
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Desserts
Eton Mess
Crushed meringue, whipped cream and macerated strawberries folded together fifteen minutes before serving. Reputedly…
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Holiday Specials
Beef Wellington
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
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Appetizers
Scotch Eggs
Soft-boiled eggs wrapped in seasoned sausage meat, breadcrumbed and fried until the crust is deep gold and the yolk…
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Dinner
Toad in the Hole
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter until the sides climb the tin and the whole thing arrives dramatically…
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Desserts
English Trifle
Sponge soaked in sherry, a layer of fruit, proper custard set over the top and a thick raft of whipped cream. Built…
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Baking
Bakewell Tart
Shortcrust filled with raspberry jam and frangipane, baked until the almond filling is set and golden, and finished…
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Dinner
Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy
Good sausages, buttery mash and a proper onion gravy built from slow-caramelised onions and stock rather than a…
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Lunch
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
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Desserts
Bread and Butter Pudding
Buttered bread layered with raisins, soaked in vanilla custard and baked until the peaks are crisp and the middle is…
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Baking
Crumpets
Yeasted batter cooked in rings on a griddle until the tops are riddled with holes. Toasted, buttered, and eaten…
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Quick Meals
Welsh Rarebit
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
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Lunch
Ploughman's Lunch
Not cooking so much as assembly: a wedge of sharp cheddar, good bread, pickled onions, chutney, apple and butter…
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Desserts
Baked Cinnamon Apples
Apples baked slowly with cinnamon and a splash of orange juice until they collapse into their own syrup. The only…
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Appetizers
Smoked Mackerel Pâté
Smoked mackerel beaten with cottage cheese, lemon and horseradish into a coarse pâté — twelve minutes, no cooking…
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Breakfast
Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs
Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill —…
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Baking
Vanilla Sponge Cake
The plain vanilla sponge every other cake is built on: fine, even crumb, real vanilla, and enough structure to…
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Baking
Pound Cake
A pound of each: butter, sugar, eggs and flour, creamed by hand until the batter is pale enough to be its own…
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Dinner
Crispy Roast Potatoes
Parboiled hard, shaken until furred, and roasted in smoking-hot oil. The ragged surface is the whole point, and it…
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Holiday Specials
Sage and Onion Stuffing
Dried bread, a great deal of butter, onions cooked properly and enough stock that the middle stays soft while the…
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Holiday Specials
Pigs in Blankets
Chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon and roasted hot until the bacon is lacquered and crisp. Stretching the bacon…
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Holiday Specials
Mince Pies
Homemade mincemeat matured for a day, in a sweet shortcrust rich enough to hold together in the hand. Butter rather…
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Holiday Specials
Christmas Pudding
Steamed for six hours, then left to mature for as long as you have. The long steam is what turns a bowl of dried…
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Holiday Specials
Bread Sauce
Milk infused with onion, clove and bay, then thickened with nothing but breadcrumbs. Older than gravy, better than…
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Baking
Hot Cross Buns
Soft, spiced and heavily fruited, with a piped flour cross and an apricot glaze that goes on while they are still…
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Holiday Specials
Simnel Cake
A light fruit cake with a disc of marzipan baked through the middle and eleven balls on top, one for each apostle…
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Drinks
Mulled Cider
Dry cider warmed with apple, orange and whole spices, sweetened only just enough. Lighter than mulled wine and…
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Breakfast
Kedgeree
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Cheese
Cauliflower roasted rather than boiled, under a mustard-sharp sauce made with cheese that is actually strong enough…
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Quick Meals
Sardines on Toast
Tinned sardines mashed with lemon, chilli and parsley on charred sourdough. Fifteen minutes, about two pounds a…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Mushroom Toast
Mushrooms cooked hard in a dry pan until they squeak and brown before any fat goes in, then finished with garlic…
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Dinner
Lentil Shepherd's Pie
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
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Appetizers
Potted Shrimps
Tiny brown shrimps set in spiced butter and turned out on toast. Morecambe Bay has sent them south since the…
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Appetizers
Devils on Horseback
Prunes stuffed with almonds, wrapped in bacon and grilled until it crackles. The savoury that survived, mostly…
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Appetizers
Angels on Horseback
Oysters in bacon, grilled hot and eaten on toast. The other half of the Victorian savoury pair, and much older than…
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Lunch
London Particular
Pea and ham soup thick enough to be named after the fog. A ham hock, a bag of split peas and almost nothing else.
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Lunch
Leek and Potato Soup
Four ingredients, twenty minutes on the stove, and better than almost anything more complicated. The soup to know by…
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Lunch
Mulligatawny Soup
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
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Dinner
Oxtail Soup
Four hours of oxtail reduced to something almost black, thickened by nothing but its own gelatine. The best use of…
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Appetizers
Scotch Woodcock
Scrambled egg on anchovy toast, and there has never been any woodcock in it. Churchill ate it, the House of Commons…
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Appetizers
Jellied Eels
Eel poached in a spiced stock that sets to a clear jelly as it cools. East London has eaten them from a bowl with…
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Baking
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Hot water crust raised by hand around coarsely chopped pork, baked free-standing and filled with jelly through a…
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Baking
Sausage Rolls
Good sausagemeat in butter puff, glazed and seeded. Everything wrong with a shop sausage roll is the pastry, and…
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Appetizers
Piccalilli
Cauliflower, onion and cucumber in a sharp turmeric-yellow mustard sauce, made from vegetables kept deliberately…
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Appetizers
Pickled Onions
Small onions in spiced malt vinegar, sharp enough to make your eyes water. Six weeks in the jar and they will keep…
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Appetizers
Cumberland Sauce
Redcurrant jelly loosened with port and sharpened with orange, mustard and ginger. Cold, clear, and the correct…
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Dinner
Lancashire Hotpot
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
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Dinner
Steak and Kidney Pudding
Suet pastry lining a basin, filled with beef and kidney and steamed for four hours until the crust is translucent…
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Dinner
Liver and Bacon with Onion Gravy
Lamb's liver kept pink in the middle under a heap of onion gravy. Twenty minutes, and the reason to be careful is…
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Dinner
Faggots and Peas
Coarse offal meatballs wrapped in caul fat and baked in onion gravy, with mushy peas alongside. The Black Country's…
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Breakfast
Devilled Kidneys
Lamb's kidneys in a mustard, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce, on toast, at breakfast. A Victorian sideboard dish…
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Dinner
Beef Stew and Dumplings
Beef braised three hours with suet dumplings dropped on top for the last twenty minutes, where they steam rather…
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Dinner
Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce
A leg of lamb studded with garlic and rosemary, pink in the middle, with a mint sauce sharp enough to cut it…
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Dinner
Roast Pork with Crackling
Loin of pork with crackling that shatters, and an apple sauce made sharp rather than sweet. The crackling is not…
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Dinner
Gammon with Parsley Sauce
A gammon joint boiled in cider with a white sauce full of parsley. Old-fashioned in the best way and the source of a…
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Dinner
Stargazy Pie
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Breakfast
Grilled Kippers
A split smoked herring under the grill with butter and lemon. Fifteen minutes including the toast, and better than…
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Appetizers
Soused Herring
Herring fillets rolled and baked slowly in spiced vinegar, then left to go cold. Sharp, soft-boned, and a week in…
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Appetizers
Dressed Crab
A crab picked and returned to its own shell, brown meat one side, white the other. An hour of fiddly work and the…
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Appetizers
Devilled Whitebait
Tiny whole fish tossed in cayenne flour and fried until they rattle. Eaten by the handful, heads and all, with lemon…
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Dinner
Chicken and Leek Pie
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
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Dinner
Rabbit Pie
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
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Breakfast
Bubble and Squeak
Cold mash and cold greens pressed into a pan and fried until a crust forms on both sides. Named for the noise it…
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Dinner
Mushy Peas
Marrowfat peas soaked overnight with bicarbonate of soda and cooked to a thick green pool. The correct thing next to…
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Dinner
Braised Red Cabbage
Red cabbage cooked down for over an hour with apple, vinegar and spice until it is sweet, sharp and dark. Better…
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Dinner
Honey Roast Parsnips
Parsnips parboiled, roughed up and roasted in honey until the edges go almost black. The best thing on the Christmas…
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Dinner
Pease Pudding
Yellow split peas boiled to a purée in ham stock and set firm enough to slice. Tyneside eats it cold in a stottie…
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Dinner
Pan Haggerty
Potato, onion and cheese layered in a frying pan, cooked on the hob and finished under the grill. Northumberland…
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Dinner
Stuffed Marrow
A marrow hollowed out, filled with spiced mince and baked with cheese on top. What the allotment demands every…
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Lunch
Watercress Soup
Watercress cooked for ninety seconds and blended immediately, which is what keeps it the colour of a wet lawn…
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Appetizers
Potted Cheese
Hard cheese beaten with butter, mace and port and sealed under more butter. Eighteenth-century, requires no cooking…
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Lunch
Coronation Chicken
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
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Lunch
Cucumber Sandwiches
Thin white bread, salted cucumber, good butter, no crusts. Four ingredients, and every single one of them has to be…
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Desserts
Spotted Dick
A suet pudding studded with currants, steamed until it is light rather than heavy, and drowned in custard. The name…
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Desserts
Treacle Sponge Pudding
A steamed sponge with a pool of golden syrup at the bottom that becomes a sauce over the top when it is turned out…
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Desserts
Jam Roly-Poly
Suet pastry spread with jam, rolled up, and steamed into spirals. Known in every school in the country as dead man's…
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Baking
Treacle Tart
Golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in a pastry case, under a lattice. Sweet enough to make your teeth ache and the…
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Desserts
Apple Crumble
Bramleys under a rubble of butter, flour and sugar. The whole argument is over the ratio, and it is three parts…
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Desserts
Rhubarb Fool
Roasted rhubarb folded through whipped cream so it stays in ribbons rather than turning the whole thing pink…
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Desserts
Summer Pudding
A basin lined with white bread and filled with barely cooked berries, pressed overnight until the bread turns…
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Desserts
Queen of Puddings
A custard set over breadcrumbs, spread with warm jam and finished with meringue. Three separate puddings stacked on…
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Baking
Chelsea Buns
A spiral of enriched dough rolled around currants and spice, baked touching so the sides stay soft, and glazed…
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Desserts
Baked Rice Pudding
Pudding rice, milk, sugar and nutmeg baked for two hours until a brown skin forms on top. The skin is the entire…
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Desserts
Syllabub
Cream whipped with sweet wine, brandy and lemon until it holds. Elizabethan, requires no heat, and takes about ten…
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Desserts
Banoffee Pie
Toffee made from a tin of condensed milk, bananas, and a great deal of cream, on a biscuit base. Invented in a…
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Baking
Custard Tart
A pastry case filled with set egg custard and grated nutmeg. Nothing to hide behind, which is why it is the tart…
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Desserts
Lemon Posset
Cream, sugar and lemon juice, boiled for three minutes and left to set. Three ingredients, no gelatine, no eggs, and…
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Baking
Eccles Cakes
Currants in butter and spice inside flaky pastry, slashed three times and baked until the sugar on top caramelises…
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Baking
Yorkshire Parkin
An oatmeal, treacle and ginger cake that is inedible on the day it is baked and excellent a week later. Yorkshire…
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Baking
Flapjacks
Oats bound with butter, golden syrup and sugar, baked in a tray and cut while warm. Thirty-five minutes and…
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