I've been back in work for just over a week now and I'm exhausted, so food has been just good old tried and tested recipes, and not really blogable. The above photo was taken on our honeymoon last year on the Isle of Harris when we were chilling out with a scarily big jug of Pimms. Remember the days where you could sit outside in the hot sunshine in the UK for most of the summer and not have to dodge torrential rain...
To make up for the slight blogging drought and the fact British Food Fortnight is just around the corner, here is The British One Hundred as put together by Helen at Food Stories. Along the same idea as the Omnivore's Hundred, but I can tick a great deal more off the list! Items in bold I have eaten, items I've crossed out I wouldn't consider eating...or you would have to pay me a great deal of money.
1. Grey squirrel
2. Steak and kidney pie
3. Bubble and squeak
4. Spotted dick
5. Hot cross buns
6. Laver bread
7. Toad in the hole
8. Shepherds pie AND cottage pie
9. Scotch egg
10. Parkin
11. Welsh rarebit
12. Jellied eels
13. Stilton
14. Marmite (I hate it, evil, evil stuff...)
15. Ploughman’s lunch
16. Cucumber sandwiches
17. Coronation chicken
18. Gloucester old spot (I've eaten it many times and even from Jimmy's Farm)
19. Cornish pasty (Oh how I love Cornish pasties!)
20. Samphire
21. Mince pies
22. Winkles
23. Salad cream (not a big fan though)
24. Malt loaf (essential camping cake)
25. Haggis
26. Beans on toast even better with cheese sprinkled on top.
27. Cornish clotted cream tea I also like it the Devonshire way ;)
28. Pickled egg
29. Pork scratchings
30. Pork pie (I have to pick the jelly out though)
31. Black pudding
32. Patum Peperium or Gentleman’s relish
33. Earl grey tea
34. Elvers (I saw Gordon Ramsay cook these on the F Word and it totally freaked me out)
35. HP Sauce
36. Potted shrimps
37. Stinking bishop
38. Elderflower cordial
39. Pea and ham soup
40. Aberdeen Angus Beef
41. Lemon posset this was the first pudding Hubby ever made me
42. Guinness
43. Cumberland sausage
44. Native oysters
45. A ‘full English’
46. Cockles
47. Faggots
48. Eccles cake
49. Potted Cromer crab
50. Trifle
51. Stargazy pie
52. English mustard
53. Christmas pudding the best pudding in the world.
54. Cullen skink
55. Liver and bacon with onions
56. Wood pigeon
57. Branston pickle
58. Oxtail soup
59. Piccalilli
60. Sorrel
62. Chicken tikka masala
63. Deep fried Mars Bar (wrong, so wrong)
64. Fish, chips and mushy peas
65. Pie and mash with liquor (I've eaten pie & mash, but not with liquor)
66. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (with gravy)
67. Pickled onions
68. Cock-a-leekie soup
69. Rabbit and Hare
70. Bread sauceI'm not a big fan of if though
71. Cauliflower cheese
72. Crumpets
73. Rice pudding
74. Bread and butter pudding
75. Bakewell tart
76. Kendall mint cakeand essential for hill walkers!
77. Summer pudding
78. Lancashire hot pot
79. Beef Wellington
80. Eton mess
81. Neeps and tatties
82. Pimms The best summer drink, see photo above!
83. Scampi
84. Mint sauce
85. English strawberries and cream
86. Isle of Wight garlic
87. Mutton
88. Deep fried whitebait with tartare sauce
89. Angels on horseback
90. Omelette Arnold Bennett
91. Devilled kidneys
92. Partridge and pheasant
93. Stew and dumplings
94. Arbroath smokies
95. Oyster loaves (sounds interesting though!)
96. Sloe gin I'm going to try and make my own this year
97. Damson jam
98. Soda bread
99. Quince jelly
100. Afternoon tea at the Ritz (Not at the Ritz, but I have at Bettys)
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The British One Hundred
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14 comments:
I love the British twist on this list - just shows how many great dishes we have in the British Isles!
The weather is so depressing. Its a lovely evening tonight - the first good one for a bout a month but now its too cold to sit out and enjoy it, will have to wait unitl next year!!!
Thinking about it I might not be so keen on devilled kidneys, I should have crossed it out of my list I think.
BTW - 3 colleagues of mine want to go and see Hamlet!
Antonia - it certainly does prove how good british cuisine is
Beth - the weekend has been a washout for us. We were meant to be camping, but the campsite phoned to say they were flooded. We've also had flooding near us :( Has certainly been warmer today, but an hour ago it began to rain again. As for Hamlet I'm still on the search for tickets to see it again!
I am so glad you liked the list! I am loving reading through them. I agree with what you say about the malt loaf, I just came back from a camping weekend and I could really have appreciated it!
Love that list!!! And I seem to be a true Brit -
I haven't eaten Grey Squirrel (not really Britsih is it! but in the interest of conservation and our Walnut crop I'll give it a go!)
Yet to try Stargazey pie (looking forward to doing so) or Deep Fried Mars Bar (will give this a miss).
Oyster Loaves? - must seek them out!
And maybe I'll ask the OH to take me for tea at the Ritz! But I have had a few posh afernoon teas (including Betty's) and I'm sure they came close to Ritz standard.
So - I've eaten and liked (except Pickled Eggs - still to be convinced about the joys of these!) all the others! Hurrah!!!!
Celia :)
Shepherds pie is my favourite!
Great list!
Sloe Gin,
You really should. Its fantastic and very easy.
Sarah Ravens elderflower cordial is also worth a go - but that's for next year.
Jane
I have only had 8. :( Looks like a trip abroad is in store for me. :)
What a fun list!!
Great list! But I am amazed there is only one reference to sandwiches. There can be few things more British than a good sanger or sarny.
That said the cucumber sandwich is a classic.
Thanks for this great list. I am coming to London next week, and Pimm's on top of mine!
thanks so much for stopping by my site. I guess what they say about marmite is true....you either love it or hate it. There is no in between. And I don't think that many people eat salad cream anymore. I wonder when that happened?
Helen - thank you for coming up with the list.
Magic Cochin - The whole idea of a pickled egg makes me feel a bit bleugh!
Catering Equipment - you can't beat shepherds pie for comfort food.
Jane K - thanks for the cordial suggestion.
Susan - sounds like a great excuse for a trip abroad!
Maria - I certainly had fun going through it.
Browners - I'm sure it's possible to come up with a 100 list of just sandwiches.
Simran - Have a great time in London and I hope you manage to drink some pimms.
Michele - thanks for popping by. It is odd that salad cream isn't as popular now. Maybe it is due to the fact there is more dressings out there now.
Hey there - adopt a blogger matches are up!
I just realized you were posted with someone who is a Vegan. If you want a non-vegan adoptee, let me know and I can find a Vegan to adopt her :)
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