typical British cuisine

Watercress doesnt feature enough on menus in my view.

Your mum sounds like mine....I remember parties like that ❤️

For parties, my mum always used to do cold roast joints of beef, gammon, boned chicken, seasonal salads, probably including local watercress and possibly honegrown new potatoes and peas, bread and butter,. She loved doing puds, so crumbles, meringues, soft fruit (possibly from the garden,) fools, maybe profiteroles if time to do choux pastry. Local cream. Finished up with a British cheese board.

There were some great parties over the years.

I'd probably go for
Local watercress soup
Roast beef with everything- Local veg.
Sussex pond pudding or maybe lemon merigue
British xheese board.
(I don't eat fish, though o can otherwise see the argument for including it.)

My death row dinner would include the first Jersey royals and British asparagus, so you can only kill me off in May...

Tomato soup
Roast beef with all the trimmings
Apple pie or crumble with cream or custard

Death row -

Prawn cocktail
Poached salmon, new potatoes and salad
Chocolate nut sundae

Cooker properly it is delicious.

This sounds perfect and you could always serve culcannon with the lamb.

Smoked mackerel pate with sourdough very thin toast and gherkins (or salmon mousse)
Beef Wellington (or Lancashire Hotpot with braised red cabbage etc)
Apple and blackberry crumble or crème brûlée (invented at Trinity College, Cambridge according to legend!). Or Queen of Puddings….mmmmm.

If I was going to be on Deathrow I wouldn't be choosing British 'cuisine' 🤭 that's just cruel!

@Bikergran this sounds glorious. Thank you!

A posh roast dinner as main, sticky toffee pudding as a dessert or syrup sponge but not sure about a starter

Prawn cocktail (Bloody Mary style) steak and chips. Trifle

If you want a stereotypical British menu, I’d do scotch egg (proper, like), beef and ale pie, veg, new potatoes and gravy, followed by trifle.

Not that I’d eat any of that shit myself.

When they send me to the gallows, I’ll have a lobster (cooked at home), but expertly picked (because I can’t be arsed). Greenland prawns in their shells, 2 oysters, a salad, with beetroot, hot new potatoes and boiled eggs. Salad cream. And Morrisons The Best coleslaw.

I’d fill up on coleslaw (and wine) early on and end up leaving most of rest.

Watch the Great British Menu for inspo!

I’d play into seasonality and I too have done a Lancashire themed menu in the past!

seafood starter - either popcorn shrimp style in a tempura batter or raw / buttered pots on fresh bread depending on how far you are from a stocking
black pudding scotch eggs with homemade chutneys

you could do a deconstructed hotpot with a roast lamb rack and a pot of the veg
I think a butter pie could perhaps be more summery, served with a chicory salad
One of my favourite dishes in the world is burnt sprouts with black pudding crumb, it’s an amazing side for a roast chicken with some standout roasties (the best part of a Sunday roast, arguably the most British of dishes)

fruit pudding / trifle / pavlova depending on which fruits are most in season
did an uncle Joe mintball choc brownie which went down a storm

end on a cheese and chutney plate as it’d be rude not to!

pair with British ales and wines

I really haven't ever eaten a pudding or a dessert that tasted better than cheese.

Spotted dick

Haha. I remember at work entertaining some American colleagues down the local pub, who were on a visit and saw Spotted Dick on the menu. They thought the name was hilarious and all felt they needed to try it. They loved it. It never struck me as a funny name for a pudding before that as I'd grown up with it. For them, being in a British pub was a great experience for them, let alone trying a funny sounding pudding.

You don't see it so much now unfortunately.

For my final meal, I would like smoked salmon (not from a supermarket). To follow, I would like scallops as the fish course and then a tiny perfectly cooked piece of fillet steak. And a glorious green salad with nice bread throughout. For me, that would be perfection on the plate. I would not want a dessert.

Asparagus soup.
Lamb chops grilled with rosemary and served with salad and new potatoes.
Summer pudding or lemon syllabub.

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Death row meal: all you can eat buffet

Come dine with me:
S: staffs oatcakes ( not very fine dining I know!)
M: roast beef & trimmings
D: cheese board with regional cheeses

This is like food porn this thread.

Or is it mould?

Elderflower jelly, a massive mold of it wibbling on the centre of the table, all glossy and see through with bits of elderflower in it.

Couldnt get more British

if it's summer I'd go

pea soup *there's a nice bit not very 'British' recipe with tamarind, but given you're clearly ok with meat perhaps pea and ham?

beef wellington - its easy just give yourself enough time to assemble well ahead, and use a meat thermometer - no need to do indiividual ones the ends are always more cooked than the centre

lemon posset is incredibly easy and very old fashioned British.
or a fruity souffle, chilled or warm version
or sussex pond pudding (but more wintery)
or any number of combinations of meringue, cream and fruit or steamed pud type things

and a cheeseboard because there are some amazing British cheeses

Go for a proper pudding. Jam Roly poly or spotted dick. Our puddings are great.