FOOD & DRINK
Contrary to popular belief there has been a tremendous wealth of culinary delights created within England’s green and pleasant lands throughout history.
In this section we’ve tried to bring together all the delicious delicacies and thirst quenching drinks that have satisfied English appetites over the centuries, complete with their geographical origins, historical development and recommended recipes. Tuck in!
- Bangers and mash
- Bird’s Custard – Alfred Bird
- Black Pudding
- Branston Pickle
- Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)
- Bubble and Squeak
- Cheddar cheese[43] – modern cheddar cheese manufacture Joseph Harding
- Cornish pasty
- Cottage pie
- Cumberland sausage
- Eccles cake
- English mustard
- Fish and Chips
- Full English breakfast
- Gravy
- Haggis – Normally assumed to be of Scottish origin, but the first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as ‘hagese’), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North-West England.[44]
- Ice cream [45] – Modern Ice cream 1718 England
- Jellied eels
- Kendal mint cake
- Lancashire hotpot
- Lincolnshire sausage
- Marmite
- Pancake [46] – Modern pancake, English culinary manuscript 1430
- Parkin
- Pasty
- Piccalilli
- Pork pie
- Sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Scotch egg – Invented by the famous London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in 1738.
- Scouse
- Shepherd’s pie
- Carbonated water, major and defining component of soft drinks [47] – Joseph Priestley
- Spotted Dick
- Steak and kidney pie
- Sunday roast
- Toad in the hole
- Worcestershire sauce[48]
- Yorkshire Pudding