Typical English dish which can be eaten cold?

Question

It's our last French class on Friday, and we all have to take a typical dish in from our country of origin. I am from England, but I can't think of anything typically English which can be eaten cold!

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

I think you might mean finger food. So why not make scones? You can add cheese or bacon bits for a savoury dish or sultanas for sweet, be generous with the butter (salted for savoury, unsalted for sweet)). Make plain scones and serve them with strawberry jam- substitute mascarpone for clotted cream. No one will notice!

Answer 2

I can think of lots of typical English snacks, pork Pie, Herring Rollmops, Cornish Pastie, Scotch egg, Sausage rolls etc but these are not really main dishes.

Most puddings are cold but I don't think they count as they are really a second course.

I guess the best cold meals are things like a good Ploughmans or a salad.You could try a Ham and pickle salad or a salad with some cold meats ( Ham, Pork, Beef, Luncheon meat, Liver sausage or cold Chicken), pickles and potato salad.Try to include typical english ingredients like lettuce ,cucumber, watercress,picalilli , beetroot, boiled egg.

You could just confound them and make a huge Cornish pasty shaped like a Stegosaurus with loads of things in, enough to feed an army, and spin them a yarn about the Cornish tin workers taking them down the mines.

Answer 3

"Cold ham; Cold fish, boiled fowl; Yorkshire pudding (meatish); Gooseberry pye; Loyn of mutton roast; Sweet Pies; Umble pye; and Tarts are served cold.

Note:.

Animal foods of every description served as the basis of the English diet for all but the poorest during the Shakesperean period—from game for the aristocrat, including beaver and boar, pheasant and heron, to domestic animals for the less privileged—beef, veal, lamb, mutton, pork, rabbit, chicken, pigeon, turkey, goose and duck. The diet also included organ meats such as liver, kidneys, tongue, calf heads, sweetbreads, brains, heart, ears and feet. The English during the early part of the 17th century, had recipes for "puddings of a calf's mugget [entrails]" and "roast cow's udder."

*Umble pye, (Now called Humble Pie) is made from the entrails or umbles of deer, was regarded as peasant food during the Victorian era. But organ meats are out of fashion now, particularly among the upper classes.

Better today is this;
A sweet dish – sack posset, or thick alcoholic pudding.
is closer to the present day. Recipe below;

SACK POSSET

4 egg yolks
2 egg whites
1/4 pint dry sherry
1/8 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground mace
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
1 pint single cream
3 oz sugar

Beat together the egg yolks, egg whites, sherry and spices, and gently heat in a large pan, stirring constantly, until warm, but still not thickened. Heat the cream and sugar together and as it rises to the full boil pour from a good height into the warm eggs and sherry mixture. Allow the posset to stand in a warm place for a few minutes, sprinkle a little sugar across its surface, and serve. Enjoy!

Some other facts;

Revenge: a dish that is best served cold by men ... but men are more vindictive than women when it comes to revenge, according to British scientists.

Skepticism: Is also a dish best served cold. :-)

Crème brûlée is better..LOL

Answer 4

A bedfordshire clanger....Thats a pasty with meat one end and jam the other,used to be taken by farmworkers for there lunch in the fields.

Answer 5

i am going to grant you with some advice. do no longer purchase tuna packed in water, purchase tuna in oil. Oh, that's correct, you suggested low-cal, did not you? nicely, each of the more beneficial reason to purchase tuna in oil. Why? because tuna packed in water has lost a lot of its style, and tastes more beneficial like moist cardboard than tuna. So, those who use mayonnaise in tuna salad will use two times the quantity for tuna packed in water than tuna packed in oil. As an more beneficial nutritional bonus, get the Italian tuna in olive oil. Olive oil is amazingly sturdy for you, and enhances the style of the tuna o.k..

Answer 6

A traditional ploughmans always goes down well - Lump of cheddar/stilton, apple, pickles, pickeled onion, salad and fresh farmhouse bread and butter.

Failing that, why not sandwiches (named after the first Earl o Sandwich)

Answer 7

A Pasty or a Ploughman

Answer 8

Tripe can be eaten cold with just a little salt and pepper and a sprinkling of vinegar. Yum, yum, yum.

Answer 9

ploughman's lunch, i e English cheese, home made bread, homemade pickles, side salad, and a pint of cider, other than that how about Cornish pastie, this can be eaten hot or cold, pork pie, apple pie, its endless.enjoy what ever you do

Answer 10

Potato Salad or Macaroni Salad