English pot luck contribution

[AnnaDelvorkina]

International day at school, (we don’t live in UK), DD13 has to take an English contribution - food. Can be sweet or savoury, a big plate to share or individual items, snacky or a meal/dish. She will arrive at 8am and it will be eaten at 1pm. No fridge and no way of heating up, but crockery and cutlery provided. The items are on a buffet then eaten sitting at a table. Enough for 30-40 people to have a taste.

From my point of view it would be better to avoid pork, but that’s not a rule.

Ideally it would be something not too expensive to provide.

What is typically English and will go down well?

Sausage rolls

P.S. DD detests and fears Marmite (my favourite English food!) so I imagine her peers will too.

Great idea, thank you.

Any failsafe recipes, please? With and without pork welcome.

Enough for 40 people!

Scones with butter & jam (skip the cream as there's no fridge)

A solid cake, such as lemon drizzle, which can be cut into 30 or 40 cubes.

What about fairy cakes? Butterfly cakes? Tiffin?

I literally just use pre made puff pastry and sausage meat... sometimes I add mustard, chutney or caramelised onions.

I'm sure there must be some good veggie versions but I've never made them veggie myself.

I think you’d need to be careful if there’s no refrigeration depending on the temperature of the country you’re in. What about scones?

Cucumber sandwiches cut into quarters or eighths?

Make this recipe and then put strips of the resulting meat preparation inside rolled-up shop-bought puff pastry. It's really good. If you've ever wondered what spices go into ordinary British sausages, now you know.

The original recipe uses half-beef, half-pork. All-beef might be a bit much, but you could perhaps use half-veal or half-chicken mince instead.

www.christinascucina.com/how-to-make-homemade-lorne-sausage-scottish-square-sausage/

Cheese on crackers?

Cheese scones or cheese straws would be easy to make and would hold up well.

Cornish pasty? Apple pie? Scones? Yorkshire puddings? Jam Tarts?
Don't worry too much.. make something you have ingredients for if you can.. there'll be SO much food if 30 people are bringing something.
I'd be tempted to go the easy route and make the classic party hedgehog with cheese and pineapple on sticks! Or even rice krispie cakes!
Go easy on yourself!

Victoria sponge - Queen Vic herself ate a slice every day!

Cheese and pineapple hedgehog

Sausage rolls (veggie ones?)

Just to taste (there will be 40 dishes!)

Thank you.

Sausage rolls definitely. Make a short crust pastry or buy a ready roll pack then see if you can locate some butchers sausages or sausages meat locally.

Cheese and pineapple party hedgehog.

This is a great shout as DD loves them! Also cucumber is light and refreshing.

I would do cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches rather than plain cucumber, that's a bit boring surely

I'd be taking a couple of packets of Rich Tea biscuits

I'm not from the UK but live here now and would recommend Victoria sponge. Scones are really nice but they'll dry out sitting out on the table. Sausage rolls aren't good especially cold, sorry.

Cheese straws. Must be very cheesy ones though.

Mine are older but I lived through these years at International Schools 😀. Definitely the 70s Cheese Hedgehog, I'd do some pineapple but also some pickled onions and go big on the whole looking like a hedgehog thing. The other kids thought it was the most bonkers thing ever to have existed. Even if they don't like them, enough will dare the others to eat it that it never went to waste. Tell your kids to look out for the Koreans and Japanese, mine firmly believed they always have the best stuff.