List of English dishes

Last Sunday one of my German associates well irked me when they refused to translate 3 items on a menu. I knew the items were soups, but the descriptions made no sense.

So I want to construct a list of English dishes, then show this list to that person and see if they know what each dish is, then they might understand where I am coming from and why I was irked.

Entree's

Welsh Rabbit
Lacashire Hotpot
Corniish Pasty
Bubble and Squeak
Toad in the Hole
Coq au Vin (ok French, but I've seen it o the menus)
Hot Dog
Haggis
Mr Brains Faggots

Afters
Yorkshire Pudding
Cottage Pie
Eccles Cake
Black Pudding

I'm sitting her with Favourite New Forest Recipes next to me..

Hampshire Syllabub
Lardy cake
Lenten Pie
Watercress Flan
Hampshire Haslet

Not being English, I didn't have a clue what those were.

@ a_r

Your entrées and afters are all mixed up. Only Eccles Cakes are really desserts, the rest are main courses or accompaniments, not entrées at all, unless you're using the American meaning.

Rhubard Fool is a dessert which is hard to translate. Spotted Dick. Trifle. Toad in the Hole (main).

@ miluska

I've got no idea what half those things are either & I'm English.

I grew up in Hampshire and I've never heard of Hampshire syllabub or haslet!

Wheel, I know, the point is to confuse to opposition.

Maybe the Hampshire dishes maybe from the New Hampshire County wherever that is

Bread pudding...

Haslet is a meat-loaf kind of thing, but sludge brown where Spam is piglet pink. You buy it sliced as cold cuts. I thought it was only in the north of England, though.
If the aim is to confuse people, stargazy pie and scouse (both main courses - entrée is a silly word in that context btw as I think Don Riina ranted somewhere else) are confusing regional things. Oh, and Wet Nelly. And Pond Pudding. (both desserts, of a kind)

*goes off to raid fridge in attack of night-starvation*

Spotted Dick

Jam Roly Poly

Treacle Pud

Shepherds Pie

Scones

Shortcake

Bread Sauce

Gravy

A restaurant is not comlpete without a drinks section,

Boddingtons
London Pride
Directors
Pedigree
Willy Warmer
Old Speckled Hen
Babysham

Starters

Whitebait

Prawn Cocktail

Tomato Soup

Pate

Main Course

Steal & Kidney Pie

Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding

Fish & Chips

Liver & Onions

Chicken Portion

Desert

Apple Pie & Custard

Bread & Butter Pudding

Fresh Fruit Salad

Cheese & Biscuits

What a misnomer! This dish has nothing to do with fluffy bunnies. It is also not a welsh dish. I actually only ever knew it under the name "rarebit" not rabbit.

More like 'bread and butter pudding' than 'bread pudding'.

Suet pudding.

Here's some more wonderful English dishes:
Pease Pudding
Beef Olives
Beef Wellington
Squab Pie
Pottage
Mulligatawny Soup
Kedgeree
Devilled Kidneys
Pan Haggerty
Braised Brisket
Charter Pie
Queen of Pudding
Brown Betty
Cabinet Pudding
Eton Mess
Summer Pudding
Simnel Cake
Bakewell Tart
Parkin

what about some irish ones.

champ...a mixed dish of mashed potatoes and scallions.
Colcannon.. - mashed potatoes and cabbage
crubeens - pigs trotters
Boxty - potatoes cakes
Barm Brack - fruit cake

Upside-down cake

Crikes, I'm beginning to drool in a most unattractive manner...

How about sodabread? Sponge cake?

If it's just for confusing people Bovine calamares (sp!).

or commonly known as Tripe and onions. (Well I used to do it with more of a white whine cream onion sauce. I'd love to find some here to be honest.)

Fish 'n' Chips 'n' Mushy Peas. That'll surely gazump them!!

@OG - You're spot on, it is Welsh Rarebit!

Don't forget packet and tripe - Tripe is the lining of the cow's stomach (whitish), and packet (blue-blackish) is a sort of pigs blood pudding.

Laverbread - it's not really bread and it's not made from Lava.
Welsh Faggots - they may be welsh but they're not gay
Crempog - made with real Pogs!
Bara Brith and Bara Claddu - not really from Scotland!

I dont know what it's called but...

Some highlander food where you roast gammon for hours and hours until it falls apart with onions an things and then add porridge oats at the end and mix it all up so the gammon falls to bits and gets mixed through the porridge. Then you let it set and cut it in slices...as i said, dont know what its called, but its awesome...

and by the way... I DID mean BREAD pudding...not bread and butter pudding...no same, no , no, no...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_pudding

Haggis, Neeps 'n' tatties!