19 british traditions Recipes

bread (white is traditional, but i use low-carb rye), heinz baked beans in tomato sauce (both products come in a blue can, do not use american pork & beans or bush s beans etc. only heinz), worcestershire sauce

butter, bread, dried fruit, eggs, milk , blended with cream, cream , blended with milk, sugar, nutmeg

icing sugar , sifted, ground almonds, egg yolk, beaten lightly, orange juice, drops almond essence, plain flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, currants, sultanas, butter, caster sugar, eggs, milk, to mix

sausage or 8 s, plain flour, eggs, milk, salt, pepper, drippings or 1 tbsp vegetable oil

pickling onions, peeled, malt vinegar or 1 1/2 pints pickling vinegar, ready-mixed pickling spices (or 2 tbsp of your your own mix using -- green, white and black peppercorns, coriander seeds,)

leftover mashed potatoes or 1 lb leftover boiled potatoes or 1 lb leftover roast potato, diced, leftover cooked cabbage or 1 lb leftover cooked brussels sprout, finely chopped, butter, salt, black pepper, carrot, diced (optional)

self raising flour, salt, shredded vegetable suet or 50 g grated frozen butter, caster sugar, currants, mixed citrus peels, egg, beaten, milk

self-rising flour, grated beef suet or 6 oz vegetable suet, salt, cold water, to mix, braising steak , trimmed of fat, flour, tomato puree, onion, peeled and chopped, dried herbs or 1 tbsp chopped fresh mixed herbs, beef stock, salt, pepper

plain flour, plus extra for rolling, cold unsalted butter, roughly cubed, egg yolk, egg whisked with 1 tbsp milk, for the egg wash, ox kidney , about 400g/14oz, get it fresh from your butcher. pig s and lamb s kidneys aren tsp suitable as they on, trimmed british top rump beef, flat mixed mushrooms , unpeeled but wiped with a damp cloth, peanut oil or 3 tbsp vegetable oil, unsalted butter, onion, peeled and thickly chopped, plain flour , depending on how thick you like your gravy, off-the-boil water, marigold swiss vegetable bouillon granules, bay leaf

ground lean pork, lean ground veal or 1/2 lb lamb, suet, fresh breadcrumb , made from 3 slices of white bread,including crust, seasoning salt, lemon pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper, grated nutmeg, mace, dried thyme, dried marjoram, dried sage, onion powder, grated lemon , rind of, egg, prepared hog casing (can tsp get sausage casings, shape the sausage mixture into patties instead of link sausages) (optional)

butter (3 1/2 tbsp us), margarine (4 tbsp us), brown sugar (2/5 cup us), honey, oats (3 1/10 cup us), salt, banana, medium to large in size, chocolate (optional)

dried split green peas, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, at room temperature, fish and chips, for serving

russet potatoes, enough canola oil to half fill your largest cooking pot or deep-fat fryer, all-purpose flour, kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, all-purpose flour, paprika, kosher salt, lager beer (the lighter and fizzier, the better), skinless, boneless large-flake white fish (we use wild alaskan cod because of its quality and sustainability), enough canola oil to half fill your largest cooking pot or deep-fat fryer, kosher salt, good-quality malt vinegar , for serving

bread, buttered and crusts removed, sultanas, sugar, eggs, milk, sugar

rice flour (coarse , available packed as ground rice in the uk), low-fat milk (my mum would have used whole milk), caster sugar (to taste)

grated cheddar cheese, grated red leicester cheese, grated mozzarella cheese, mayonnaise, spring onion, finely diced, onion, finely diced, salt & pepper