English Inventions - Food

Food

  • Bangers and mash
  • Black pudding
  • Balti – British-style type of curry, served in many restaurants in the United Kingdom. The origins of the Balti style of cooking are uncertain; some believe it to have been invented in Birmingham, England while others believe it originated in the northern Pakistani region of Baltistan in Kashmir from where it spread to Britain.
  • Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)
  • Bubble and squeak
  • Cheddar cheese – 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.
  • Ice cream – Modern Ice cream 1718 England
  • Jellied eels
  • Kendal mint cake
  • Lancashire hotpot
  • Lasagne – Contrary to popular belief, the first recipes for a lasagne-styled dish were found in an English 14th Century cookbook called Forme of Cury, it was a popular dish during the reign of King Richard II.
  • Lincolnshire sausage
  • Pancake – Modern pancake, English culinary manuscript 1430
  • Parkin
  • Pasty
  • Piccalilli
  • Pork pie
  • Sausage roll
  • 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 – Joseph Priestley
  • Sparkling wine – Christopher Merrett
  • Spotted Dick
  • Steak and kidney pie
  • Sunday roast
  • Toad in the hole
  • Worcestershire sauce
  • Yorkshire Pudding

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