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