Traditional English foods
If you’d like to sample some traditional English dishes while visiting us (and you should!), here are some ideas, and explanations of what to expect: Sunday roast: this is the traditional midday day meal shared with the family. The meat is most usually beef, lamb, chicken or pork, and each of these has a traditional accompaniment – Yorkshire pudding (see below) and horseradish sauce (very hot – eat sparingly!) with beef, sausage-meat stuffing with chicken, apple sauce with pork and mint sauce with lamb. The meat is served with potatoes roasted in the same pan and a selection of green vegetables. In the past, and to some extent still in cheaper pubs especially, these vegetables would have been rather over-cooked and soggy, but we’re learning these days to serve them more al dente, thank goodness. Yorkshire pudding: the traditional accompaniment to Sunday’s roast beef, but often served...
