EATING
IN
ENGLAND
In
Breakfast
- between
Lunch
- between
Dinner
(sometimes called Supper)
- The main meal. Eaten anytime between
BREAKFAST
The
traditional English breakfast consists
of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms.
Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always
served in hotels and guest houses around
Nowadays,
a typical
English breakfast is
more likely to be a bowl
of cereals, a
slice of toast, orange juice
and a cup of coffee.
Many
people, especially children, in
LUNCH
Many children at school and adults at work will have a
'packed lunch'. This typically consists of a sandwich, a packet
of crisps, a piece of
fruit and a drink.
The 'packed lunch' is kept in a plastic container.
Favourite
sandwiches are: prawn and mayonnaise, tuna and mayonnaise and ham and pickle.
DINNER
The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'.
A
typical British meal for dinner is meat and two vegetables, (such as potatoes,
carrots, peas, cabbages, mushrooms, onions). They usually put hot brown gravy,
traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat (but more often today from
a packet!) on the meat and the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost
always potatoes. Most people in
THE
SUNDAY ROAST DINNER
On Sundays
the main meal of the
day is often eaten at
Beef
is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb
with green mint sauce. Gravy is poured over the meat.
YORKSHIRE
PUDDING
This dish is not usually eaten as a dessert
like other puddings but instead as part of the main course or at a starter.
Yorkshire pudding, made from flour, eggs and milk, is a sort of batter baked in
the oven and usually moistened with gravy.
PUDDINGS
AND CAKES IN
There are hundreds of variations of sweet puddings in
The
traditional accompaniment is custard, known as English sauce. The dishes are
simple and traditional, with recipes passed on from generation to generation.
CHRISTMAS
PUDDING
Christmas
pudding is a brown pudding with raisins, nuts and cherries. It is similar to
fruitcake, except that pudding is steamed and fruitcake is baked.
Christmas
pudding is served with custard or brandy sauce. Brandy
is often poured over the pudding, which is then set a light as it is carried to
the table. The lights are turned off so people can see the flames.
Traditionally
silver coins were hidden in it. A silver coin brought good fortune to
whomever was lucky enough to find it when the pudding was cut.
FISH AND CHIPS
Fish
and chips is the classic English take-away food and is the traditional national
food of
The
fish is deep fried in flour batter and is eaten with chips. Traditionally, the
fish and chips are covered with salt and malt vinegar and, using your fingers,
eaten straight out of the newspaper which they were wrapped in. Now-a-days small
wooden forks are provided and the fish and chips are wrapped in more hygienic
paper.
AFTERNOON
TEA (The traditional
This is a small meal, not a drink. Traditionally it
consists of Tea (or
coffee) served with freshly baked
scones served with
cream and jam, tea sandwiches,
assorted pastries.
Now
most ordinary British families do not have time for afternoon tea at home, but
in the past it was a tradition. It became popular about one hundred and fifty
years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an
afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes
too. Soon everyone was enjoying Afternoon tea.
HIGH
TEA (The traditional
The British working population did not have afternoon tea. They had a meal about