British Food :3

Here's what I found out about 4 most interesting British dishes. Some of them are really disgusting, but some are just traditional and that's why I chose them.

English breakfast

English breakfast is a traditional dish which British people eat for breakfast. It contains: fried or scrambled eggs, bacon, black or white pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans in tomato sauce.  Such meal is really fatty and has a lot of calories, that’s why people started to make vegetarian versions of the dish. For me, there are too many different flavours in one dish and I hate beans so it's not really for me.

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Black pudding

It is also a dish usually eaten in the morning. It looks like a big, black sausage. It is made from pig’s blood, meat, offal and fat. The recipe is different in every region. In USA it is also called blood sausage. It sounds similar to Polish "kaszanka" , but now I know how it's made and I think it's really awful .

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Cumberland sausage

Cumberland sausage is a sausage that originated in ancient Cumberland, England. These are very long and curled. They can be even 50cm long! Sometimes they are made shorter, like ordinary British ones.  The meat is usually pork with herbs and spices. Sausage again, so it looks like the British love meat and blood!.

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Haggis

It is a stomach of an animal stuffed with sheep's heart, liver and lungs mixed with onion, oatmeal, spices, and salt. Most of modern haggis is prepared in sausage casing rather than stomach. Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish. It is traditionally served with "neeps and tatties" (Scots: turnip and potato) and with dram (a glass of Scotch whisky). Ughh...  stomach, it sounds so disgusting that I wouldn't try it.

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How to make black pudding?

Ingredients:

·         1 quart pig's blood

·         12 ounces bread crumbs

·         Salt and pepper, to taste

·         1 quart milk

·         1 cup cooked barley

·         1 cup dry rolled oats

·         1 ounce ground mint

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl; pour into a large kettle or Dutch oven and bring to a boil. Pour into a wide shallow bowl and season again if necessary. Chill thoroughly, until firm. When cold it may be cut into slices and fried.

I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading.

~ by Rue  :)