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Welcome to the World of British meals!
BREAKFAST
What is a typical English Breakfast?
Most people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Now-a-days, however, 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 England will eat a bowl of cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc.
In the winter many people will eat "porridge" or boiled oats.
What is the traditional English 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 Britain.
The traditional English breakfast is called the 'Full English' and sometimes referred to as 'The Full English Fry-up'.
The Sunday Roast Dinner
Sunday lunch time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast.
Traditionally it consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular.
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.
Sample School Dinner Menu
In British schools, children can usually choose between a hot or cold dinner provided by the school or a packed lunch taken from home. 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.
Some children are entitled to a free school dinner, but most children pay for theirs.
Lunch break is from 12.15 noon to 1.15 p.m. and children may have a school meal or bring a packed lunch.
School lunches are priced at £1.60
Pasta twirls
Mince beef
lasagna
Traditional Drinks in Britain
The traditional way of making tea is:
Boil some fresh cold water.
Put some hot water into the teapot to make it warm.
Pour the water away
Put one teaspoon of tea-leaves per person, and one extra tea-spoon, into the pot.
Pour boiling water onto the tea.
Leave for a few minutes.
Serve
Britain is a tea-drinking nation. Every day we drink 165 million cups of the stuff and each year around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported.
Tea in Britain is traditionally brewed in a warmed china teapot, adding one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot. Most Britons like their tea strong and dark, but with a lot of milk.
Interesting Fact
Years ago, the milk was poured into the cup first, so as not to crack the porcelain.
Tea Words and phrases
Tea break, High tea, tea time, tea party, tea towel and many more terms have derived from the tradition of drinking tea.
Tea breaks are when tea and biscuits are served. The traditional time for tea breaks are at 11:00 am (Elevensee) and 4 pm in the afternoon.
If something is not quite to your taste, it’s probably 'not your cup of tea'.
e.g. Windsurfing is not my cup of tea.
Did you know?
If someone asks you if you 'would like a cuppa', they are asking if you would like a cup of tea.
If someone says 'let me be mother' or 'shall I be mother', they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot.
DINNER
The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or 'supper'.
What is a traditional British Dinner?
A typical British meal for dinner is "meat and two veg". We put hot brown gravy, (traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat, but more often today from a packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes.
What is a typical British Dinner like today?
The traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, apart from on Sundays. A recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta dishes are now favored as the 'British Dinner'.
Vegetables grown in England, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are still very popular.
Main meal dishes in England
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. The traditional way to eat a Yorkshire pudding is to have a large, flat one filled with gravy and vegetables as a starter of the meal. Then when the meal is over, any unused puddings should be served with jam or ice-cream as a dessert.
Toad-in-the-Hole (sausages covered in batter and roasted)
Similar to Yorkshire Pudding but with sausages placed in the batter before cooking.
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
Pease Pudding
Roast apples
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.
Fish and chips
Fish (cod, haddock, huss, plaice) deep fried in flour batter with chips (fried potatoes) 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 ("chippie" ) to eat on premises or as a « take away ». It became popular in the 1860's when railways began to bring fresh fish straight from the east coast to the our cities over night.
The fish (cod, haddock, huss, plaice) 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.
Pie and Mash with parsley liquor
A very traditional East End London meal.
The original pies were made with eels because at the time eels were a cheaper product than beef. About fifty years ago, mince beef pies replaced the eels and have now become the traditional pie and mash that people know.
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 (it's bright green!).
Jellied eels are also an East End delicacy often sold with pie and mash.
Bubble & Squeak
Typically made from cold vegetables that have been left over from a previous meal, often the Sunday roast. The chief ingredients are potato and cabbage, but carrots, peas, Brussels sprouts, and other vegetables can be added. The cold chopped vegetables (and cold chopped meat if used) are fried in a pan together with mashed potato until the mixture is well-cooked and brown on the sides. The name is a description of the action and sound made during the cooking process.
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.)
Black Pudding (Blood Pudding)
Looks like a black sausage. It is made from dried pigs blood and fat). Eaten at breakfast time Recipe
Black pudding recipes vary from region to region, some are more peppery and some are more fatty than others.
Cornish Pastie with chips, baked beans and salad
Cumberland sausage
This famous pork sausage is usually presented coiled up like a long rope
Questions:
1. What do English have for breakfast?
2. What do they have for lunch?
3. What do they have for dinner?
4. What great delicacy do you know?
5. Name the most popular English Meals.
6.What do English have for dessert?
Let `s sing together!
Wonderful Dream
I had a dream last night, a wonderful dream.
I had a dream last night, a wonderful dream.
What did you dream about?
Soup in a can, peanut butter cookies, and a gingerbread man.
Chocolate candy,
a strawberry shake,
birthday candles on a birthday cake
I had a dream last night, a wonderful dream.
I had a dream last night, a wonderful dream.
What did you dream about?
Soup in a can, peanut butter cookies, and a gingerbread man.
Used resources:
W ebsite s of Mandy Barrow http://mandybarrow.com/woodlands.html
Woodlands Junior School, Hunt Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 4BB UK