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This is a list of prepared dishes characteristic of English cuisine.English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England.It has distinctive attributes of its own, but also shares much with wider British cuisine, partly through the importation of ingredients and ideas from North America, China, and the Indian subcontinent during the time of the British ...
In 1707, the kingdoms of England (which included Wales) and Scotland united to form a new country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. For the vast majority of the 18th century, the new British nation was ruled by the House of Hanover under the Georgian dynasty. During this time, the British deepened their influence in India, displacing the Dutch and ...
Faggots originated as a traditional cheap food consumed by country people in Western England, particularly west Wiltshire and the West Midlands. [6] Their popularity spread from there, [ citation needed ] especially to South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, when many agricultural workers left the land to work in the rapidly expanding ...
English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England.It has distinctive attributes of its own, but is also very similar to wider British cuisine, partly historically and partly due to the import of ingredients and ideas from the Americas, China, and India during the time of the British Empire and as a result of post-war immigration.
Welsh cuisine (Welsh: Ceginiaeth Cymreig) encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Wales.While there are many dishes that can be considered Welsh due to their ingredients and/or history, dishes such as cawl, Welsh rarebit, laverbread, Welsh cakes, bara brith and Glamorgan sausage have all been regarded as symbols of Welsh food.
A ploughman's lunch is an originally British cold meal based around bread, cheese, and fresh or pickled onions. [1] Additional items can be added, such as ham, green salad, hard boiled eggs, and apple, and usual accompaniments are butter and a sweet pickle such as Branston. [2]
Often considered the national dish of the United Kingdom, fish and chips originated in England in the 19th century. [1] [2] Today, the dish is a common takeaway food in numerous other countries, particularly English-speaking and Commonwealth nations. [3]
This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom.The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards, and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine