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What would you prepare for friends who wanted 'typically English'?

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Utopia · 05/04/2006 17:05

Good Italian friends who are always so very hospitible are 'demanding' (in a very nice way) that we prepare something 'typically English'. Any ideas????

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MillionDollarBaby · 05/04/2006 17:07

Does it have to be 3 courses? or just a main?

bakedpotato · 05/04/2006 17:07

roast lamb, roast pots, snips, creamed leeks, redcurrant jelly, mint sauce
rice pudding
or trifle

MrsBadger · 05/04/2006 17:08

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding?
Actually anything with Yorkshire pudding - all non-brits seem to find it novel if not tasty. Toad in the hole followed by spotted dick Wink?

cupcakes · 05/04/2006 17:08

roast beef and yorkshire pudding
shepherds pie
fish and chips
toad in the hole

followed by jam roly poly Grin

MillionDollarBaby · 05/04/2006 17:08

I would go for..

A lovely home made soup for starter followed byt a really good quality beef and ale pie (home made again if poss) with mashed potato and seasonal veg.
For desert I'd go for apple and/or rhubarb crumble and custard..

Carmenere · 05/04/2006 17:08

Steak and kidney pudding is a VERY English dish.

MrsBadger · 05/04/2006 17:09

Or could do a fool or a syllabub for pudding - easy, tasty and very historical.

cupcakes · 05/04/2006 17:09

just do a fray bentos pie Grin

MrsBadger · 05/04/2006 17:10

hehe - see the 70s Food thread for inspiration - can just see you serving them tinned mandarin oranges and evaporated milk...

MillionDollarBaby · 05/04/2006 17:11

Corned beef hash?
bubble and squeek?

MillionDollarBaby · 05/04/2006 17:12

Might have to have a peek at the 70's food thread..

Piffle · 05/04/2006 17:12

Ros Beouf and pudding de Yorkshire

CountessDracula · 05/04/2006 17:14

I would do a rib of beef with yorkshires, brussels sprouts etc

And a crumble

or Turkey Twizzlers and micro chips
followed by pop tarts

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Utopia · 05/04/2006 17:15

I'm starving now - thank you. Yes it has to be 3 course plus canapes etc....

OMG somebody else had the same torture: tinned mandarins and evaporated milk!

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Normsnockers · 05/04/2006 17:22

Roast meal of some kind with all the trimmings (or toad in the hole if it's easier)

Bread and butter pudding with custard- yummy.

Blu · 05/04/2006 17:24

apple pie as pud.

CountessDracula · 05/04/2006 17:25

I though apple pie was american

hence: as american as apple pie

bakedpotato · 05/04/2006 17:25

for canapes, cheddar cubes/pickled onions, on toothpix stuck in grapefruit half

foxinsocks · 05/04/2006 17:26

got to be a trifle pud (or maybe a fool)

foxinsocks · 05/04/2006 17:27

spotted dick

MrsBadger · 05/04/2006 17:27

one of the colour supplements had a Trad English Food feature recently - think it was related to Gordon Ramsey getting an OBE or something - had recipes for Brown Windsor Soup etc...

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\link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4382-2099770,00.html\here}!

Also Gordon on Oxford / Cambridge affiliated traditional dishes \link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4382-2111128,00.html\here} (have clipped this one to impress MIL)

JoolsToo · 05/04/2006 17:28

chish and fips Grin

in newspaper

JoolsToo · 05/04/2006 17:28

cornflake tart for pud

Blu · 05/04/2006 17:28

CD: but they nicked it from us, surely?

Blu · 05/04/2006 17:29

Isn't Chicken Tikka Masala our National Dish now?