Are there any good English recipes?

Question

I need a recipe for an English appetizer or something like that. I have to do a report on England and I need to bring in some English food too.

Answer 1

Make some English shortbread (cookies)!

Shortbread

1 Cup butter, room temp
1/2 Cup powdered sugar
3 C All Purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla
pinch salt

Whisk dry ingredients well. Beat butter and vanilla until fluffy. Add dry ingredients to butter. Mix just until combined. Press or roll out to about 3/8" thick, and cut into small squares or use simple cookie cutter. Prick a few holes in each, or use the tines of a fork. Place on parchment paper. Dust tops w/ a bit of granulated sugar to make them sparkle. Bake at 325ºF for approx. 15 mins or til golden brown. about 3 dz. Cool on racks; store room temp in airtight container.

Answer 2

English Toffee recipe

1/2 pound milk chocolate
2 cups salted almonds
2 cups butter or margarine
2 cups granulated sugar
2 tablespoons white corn syrup
6 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cut chocolate fine; melt in double boiler over lukewarm water (115 degrees F). Stir occasionally. Slice 1 cup of the almonds in halves lengthwise; coarsely chop remainder of nuts.
Melt butter or margarine in heavy frying pan; add sugar, the almond halves, corn syrup and water; stir until sugar is blended and no undissolved sugar adheres to sides of pan. Cook very slowly until small amount in cold water separates into hard but not brittle threads (290 degrees F). Stir occasionally to prevent burning.
Add vanilla extract. Pour to 1/4-inch thickness into a 10 x 15-inch buttered pan or individual molds.
When cool, spread melted chocolate evenly over the top. Sprinkle with remaining chopped almonds. When hard, break into pieces; store in a tightly covered container between wax paper layers.
Makes about 3 pounds candy.

Answer 3

Here's an appetizer that Edwardian gentlemen in particular were very partial to:

Scottish Woodcock
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2 slices of bread
3 tbs butter plus extra to spread
anchovy paste or 'Gentlemen's Relish' if you can get it
2 eggs beaten
2 egg yolks
4-6 tbs double cream
salt & pepper
anchovy filets sliced into thin strips
hungarian paprika to garnish

Method
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Toast the bread, spread with butter and anchovy paste (or G. Relish), remove the crusts, and cut into fingers. Reserve and keep warm while you prepare the eggs.

Melt the remaining butter in a saucepan. Beat the eggs, egg yolks and cream, and season with pepper and salt. (Salt lightly: there's a fair amount of anchovy in the dish!) Pour into the butter in the saucepan and, stirring constantly, gently heat the mixture until it begins to thicken appreciably.

Remove the saucepan from the heat and continue stirring until the mixture has heated to a thick creamy stage. Divide the egg mixture among the fingers you prepared earlier, garnish with the strips of anchovy and the paprika. Serve at once.

Yup, not a woodcock in sight: the Edwardians like their little jokes like that... :-)

Answer 4

itt is the comparable blend as a Yorkshire Pudding or as we are saying down interior the south of england batter pudding . blend 4 oz.. of flour,undeniable or self elevating with an egg crushed with milk stir thoroughly ,enable it relax for a million/2 an hour then stir lower back. while you're making candy pancakes placed a knob of butter in a frying pan and while butter has melted place a dessert spoonful of the batter and sprea it out so as which you have an extremely skinny pancake, fry for i min and toss or turn thr pancake and cook dinner it for i min. those may well be frozen. while you're making sabvoury pancakes use a small amout for each pancake. The oil ought to be very heat as ought to the butter. To make a savoury batter use beer fairly of milk.

Answer 5

There is a fabulous British cook/author that has several cook books. Her name is Elizabeth David. See if you can find something by her on the BBC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_David

Here is a link with some recipes

http://www.britainexpress.com/articles/Food/

I think "toad in the hole" would be a fun recipe to make for a class

Answer 6

here's an easy one chedar cheese cubes, stick a cocktail stick into the cheese and add pinapple cubed and cherry tomatoes or any variation of suitable veggies or fruit
great with red wine.......

Answer 7

Yes it is called take out