Main meals in England include roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, which is traditionally eaten on Sundays. Yorkshire pudding is baked batter usually served with gravy. Toad-in-the-hole consists of sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter. Traditional roast meats include beef, pork, and lamb served with accompaniments like horseradish sauce, mint sauce, or apple sauce depending on the meat. Fish and chips is a popular take-away food consisting of deep-fried fish and chips dressed in malt vinegar. Ploughman's lunch is a pub food of bread, cheese, and pickles. Shepherd's pie and cottage pie feature minced meat and vegetables topped with mashed potato. Pie and m
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1. Main meals dishes in England Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding This is England's traditional Sunday lunch.
2. 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. Then when the meal is over, any unused puddings should be served with jam or ice-cream as a dessert.
5. Roast Meats ( cooked in the oven for about two hours) Typical meats for roasting are joints of beef, pork, lamb or a whole chicken. More rarely duck, goose, gammon, turkey or game are eaten.
6. Traditional accompaniments to roast meats With beef: Horseradish sauce English mustard Yorkshire pudding Gravy With mutton and lamb Onion sauce Red-currant jelly Mint sauce Savoury herb pudding With pork Apple sauce Roast apples
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8. Fish and chips Fish deep fried in flour batter with chips dressed in malt vinegar. This is England's traditional take-away food or as US would say "to go". Fish and chips are not normally home cooked but bought at a fish and chip shop)to eat on premises or as a "take away"
9. Ploughman's Lunch This dish is served in Pubs. It consists of a piece of cheese, a bit of pickle and pickled onion, and a chunk of bread.
10. Shepherds' Pie Made with minced lamb and vegetables topped with mashed potato. Shepherd's pie,peas and tomatoes
11. Cottage Pie Made with minced beef and vegetables topped with mashed potato.
12. Pie and Mash with parsley liquor A very traditional East End London meal. The traditional pie and mash doesn't come without its famous sauce known as liquor which is a curious shade of green and definitely non-alcoholic. The liquor tastes much nicer than it looks.
14. Bangers and Mash (mashed potatoes and sausages). Bangers are sausages in England. The reason sausages were nicknamed bangers is that during wartime rationing they were so filled with water they often exploded when they were fried