Post English cuisine recipes

[The Lawspeaker]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Ploughmans_lunch.jpg

The Ploughman's Lunch (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Ploughman%27s_Lunch) is traditional British pub fair, a hearty cold meal featuring bread, cheese and pickle. Its history is not actually that old, and doesn't really date back to actual ploughmen - see Wikipedia on Ploughman's lunch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman%27s_lunch).
Arrange the following on a plate:


A big chunk of good english cheese (e.g. Cheshire, Stilton, Lancashire), or a selection of two or three types of cheese if available
A big doorstop of granary bread
Butter
Pickle (e.g. Branston pickle, or a good chunky local pickle)
Lettuce leaves

Optionally you could also add half an apple, maybe some pickled onions too.

[Beorn]

You only eat that to soak up the several pints you have had at lunchtime. The pickles are there to disguise the alcohol on your breath ;)

[The Lawspeaker]

Thanks for the info. I'll need to look for some English cheese. At least I now know what to take with me to the pub when I need to go somewhere else afterwards.:D

[Osweo]

The best way around the smell getting you in trouble that I've found is... simply to go with your boss!

And bloody thanks, LS! I could just eat that picture now! :cussing

[Albion]

I make these all the time, minus the pickles.

[The Lawspeaker]

Rumford's Soup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford's_Soup)

1 part pearl barley
1 part dried (yellow) peas
4 parts potato
salt according to need
Old, sour beer
Slowly boil until thick. Eat with bread.
Rumford's soup is not noted as particularly tasty, but is palatable with long, slow cooking.


Rumford's soup is low-fat, with high protein and carbohydrate content -- protein from the dried peas, complex carbohydrates from the potato and barley, and simple carbohydrates from the beer. Thus, Rumford's soup was close to the optimum solution to the problem of cheap, nutritious food according to the knowledge of the day. Unfortunately, such knowledge did not extend to vitamins or trace elements. As a result, Rumford's soup was often supplemented by corn or herring to supply Vitamin C and Vitamin D.

[_______]

Rumford's Soup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford's_Soup)

1 part pearl barley
1 part dried (yellow) peas
4 parts potato
salt according to need
Old, sour beer
Slowly boil until thick. Eat with bread.
Rumford's soup is not noted as particularly tasty, but is palatable with long, slow cooking.


Rumford's soup is low-fat, with high protein and carbohydrate content -- protein from the dried peas, complex carbohydrates from the potato and barley, and simple carbohydrates from the beer. Thus, Rumford's soup was close to the optimum solution to the problem of cheap, nutritious food according to the knowledge of the day. Unfortunately, such knowledge did not extend to vitamins or trace elements. As a result, Rumford's soup was often supplemented by corn or herring to supply Vitamin C and Vitamin D.


:D yum!

[The Lawspeaker]

Good enough for prisoners, I suppose. I think that this should be the standard prison meal unless someone is about to be hanged and therefore get's to pick his galgenmaal.

It would definitely cut down on the costs.

[_______]

Good enough for prisoners, I suppose. I think that this should be the standard prison meal unless someone is about to be hanged and therefore get's to pick his galgenmaal.

It would definitely cut down on the costs.

:D

[Logan]

The Highlanders back in 1745-6 were eating dry oatmeal, with a bit of water or milk if they might have it. Tried it myself, not bad.

Worst I've read was about some Southern armies 1860s having to make due with nothing but corn. No thought to try that.

[_______]

The Highlanders back in 1745-6 were eating dry oatmeal, with a bit of water or milk if they might have it. Tried it myself, not bad.

Worst I've read was about some Southern armies 1860s having to make due with nothing but corn. No thought to try that.

the guatemalans, who eat mostly corn, are an especially stumpy race of people

[The Lawspeaker]

the guatemalans, who eat mostly corn, are an especially stumpy race of people
He is referring to the American Southerners. To the C.S.A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America). Not to the Guatemalans.

[_______]

He is referring to the American Southerners. To the C.S.A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America). Not to the Guatemalans.

yes, i was just highlighting what a bad idea it is to eat only corn :)

[Treffie]

[INDENT][FONT="Georgia"]Rumford's Soup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford's_Soup)

1 part pearl barley
1 part dried (yellow) peas
4 parts potato
salt according to need
Old, sour beer
Slowly boil until thick. Eat with bread.
Rumford's soup is not noted as particularly tasty, but is palatable with long, slow cooking.



This sounds seriously unappetising - I'd rather have a Big Mac :p

[_______]

can't possibly be any worse than the soup i made for lunch :( :D

[The Lawspeaker]

can't possibly be any worse than the soup i made for lunch :( :D
LOL. What did you make ?

[The Lawspeaker]

Post here English recipes.

[Blackout]

Cornflakes.

1) Fill one bowl two thirds full with cornflakes.
2) Pour over enough milk to cover the cornflakes.
3) Place a spoon next to the bowl and serve.

Additional seasoning such as sugar can be sprinkled on top.

[Blackout]

Sandwich.

1) Place two slices of bread onto a plate
2) Put one handful of grass on top of a slice
3) Fold other slice on top.

Serve chilled with a glass of lemonade.