American Reacts to 9 British Dishes Everyone Should Try
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- In this video I react to the 9 British dishes everyone should try. This made me hungry and I now realize I would feel right at home exploring British food. These dishes look absolutely delicious and I can't wait to visit the UK and explore some of these amazing foods.
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I can't wrap my head around the fact you've "never even seen a curry"
There are curry houses EVERYWHERE in the UK, even little villages will often have a Kebab takeaway/Chinese/Indian
Yes that threw me as well. I've eaten in a number of Indian and Chinese restaurants in the US. Indian wew probably not as common as over here, they were outnumbered by Italian and Mexican places, but they were certainly around. Also when looking at curries, Thai curry is excellent. It is more delicate and fragrant than Indian but still distinct from Chinese.
The US had loads of Chinese immigration in the early days, so that's why Chinese food is much more popular over there
Yes, in my town we have Nepalese, Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mexican and many chip shops
Here's one Brit who's never had a curry, I can't even stand the smell of it!😀
The village i live in has an indian reasturant and literally no other shops at all. So no curry is confusing to me too
Steve, The fact that you back your local farmers and enjoy their produce is highly commendable ,good for you mate.👍👍
Thanks Brian. Local farmers are the lifeblood of a community. I can't buy everything local, but I try to get as much as possible from them. I personally believe the more local you do everything, the better. If we all supported our local farmers we could really bring power back to the people.
@@reactingtomyroots But... When you go to Europe The Netherlands France Italy etc. you will have your local cheeses and butter ruined for you forever. Also there's a reason why Irish butter was banned in Wisconsin even in a dairy state they know they can't compete.
So do yourself a favour and never try the dairy in Europe it's too high quality.
@@anderssorenson9998 Yep, once you try cheese in the UK and in the countries of mainland Europe, you will never go back.
Damn dude, if you ever make it over here, you need to find yourself a village pub on a cold day, get in by the fire and have Steak pie or Chicken and mushroom pie with mashed potato and minted garden peas, hot sticky toffee pudding with custard for dessert, all washed down with a pint of the local draught. Fantastic atmosphere and warming food. Amazing!
Hell, fella, that's a little slice of heaven right there
Gammon egg and chips is a staple pub lunch when you nip out of the office at 12. I pretty much lived on it when I worked in the bank
@@austinfallen another top choice! But are you fried egg or pineapple ring?
@@danhodson7187 I love pineapple, but i have a serious egg addiction. Especially dipping the chips in the egg yolk lol
@@austinfallen haha making me want a pub lunch now!
We had an American student stay with us for 3 months she was in her thirties and told us she was actually afraid that she would not be able to eat much of "our" food so the stereotype is definitely real. She fell in love with not only the food but that people tended to eat together and spend more time over meals. Her favourites were toad in the hole, roast dinners (especially Yorkshire puddings) and absolutely anything from Greggs she also claimed that our Chinese takeaways were on a whole different level than where she grew up. (Des Moines, Iowa)
that's great to hear. how did she react to her first try of our food? bet she was so shocked. :)
@@jamie151-d9j she had her first food while in London where she spent a month before coming to our place but she honestly thought she was going to struggle. I suppose if you have only ever heard bad things and have not experienced it yourself you would be concerned but she was definitely pleasantly surprised.
Does she know Bill Bryson
@@eckyboy555 That's so funny I love Bill Bryson books, A walk in the woods is probably my favourite but notes from a small island & big country are also great and I did talk to her about him but she had never read any of his stuff so as a leaving gift I got her life & times of the thunderbolt kid as it was mostly set in her home town.
I'd forgotten all about that till I read your comment, wild
@@chipsthedog1 I love all his books but my first and favourite is A Short History of Nearly Everything. I still listen to all his audio books from time to time.
As a Polish person living in the UK I absolutely love jacket potatoes filled with tuna+ mayo, cheese and hot beans...so good 🤤
Chilli & Cheese! 😋🤩
@@markiecamden wow that sounds hot 🔥 do you use fresh chillies or powder? I might try it one day 😅
@@blaszizzz Chilli as in chilli con carne
@@frankhooper7871 all right, thanks for letting me know 🙈 I never thought of that haha, could be very nice actually 😋
1 rule to remember with crumpets, after buttering it when you lift it up there should be a puddle of butter on the plate and you can use any dry pieces of crumpet to mop it up
I like a bit of cheese on mind too
Lol Spot on mate
I like soft cheese spread on mine aswell
@@lewispackham oh yes ☺
Yesss I love my crumpets with grated cheese and salami
When you come to the UK... you HAVE to try clotted cream... you just have to. I rarely have it because it is expensive. But it is a must if you want to emmerse yourself in something so quintessentially British. ❤
Some cafes use whipped cream in place of clotted cream in their scones. those cafes should be immediately shut down and the owner placed in prison.
@@errnee 😂
Our sponge puddings come in many types, Golden Syrup, Ginger, Sticky Toffee, Lemon, Summer Fruits, Chocolate, to name a few. Pour onion gravy over the bangers and mash. Cheese and potato pies are lovely with chips.
There was a poll several years ago where Chicken Tikka Masala was voted our national dish, which we're very happy about as we really do LOVE curry! Balti restaurants are a uniquely British thing, it's a style of curry which already existed (often said to have been invented in the UK but that's not the case) but evolved into a uniquely British style of curry to meet our needs and tastes, some people argue about where it originated, it's usually said to be either Glasgow or Birmingham, but Birmingham is famous for its Balti triangle, whatever the story, Balti Houses are great!
Original Indian Balti was made and served on certain Indian railways..Not hugely common in India but us Brits have embraced it...yum
booo! Fish and Chips for National Dish!
@@DraconimLt Probably a McDonalds these days to be fair, seems to be the national dish for most people under 30.
@@markjones127 what would they think about bara lava lava bread lol I have to use sheets of dry nori sushi wraps boiled down as you can't get it in England
Jalfrezi my favourite
Sponge puddings are made with a cake recipe but steamed not baked. There are loads of different types - Syrup sponge made with treacle not maple syrup. Spotted Dick is made with sultanas. You can make them using jam (jelly?), or with any flavouring you like. The syrup/jam etc is put into the bowl first then topped with the mixture. Sultanas are stirred into the Spotted Dick mixture. When cooked, the puds are upended onto a plate to be served with custard.
Crumpets are best served simply with butter.
Scones are buttered first then served with thick/clotted cream and jam.
Not mentioned was Trifle which is a cold dish made with a layer of sponge fingers or roll in the bottom of a glass bowl, then a layer of jelly (jello?) with fruit in it, followed by a layer of custard, topped with a layer of thick cream sprinkled with very tiny sweets "Hundreds and Thousands". You can also uses pieces of fruit, particularly strawberries or pieces of flaked chocolate as topping.
Then there's Bread pudding, Bread and Butter pudding, Apple Crumble (or any fruit), Summer Pudding, Rice Pudding, and so on and so on. With Christmas coming soon, we'll be making or buying Christmas Puddings or Plum Duffs and Mince Pies.
We love our puddings. And don't get me started on the cakes!
Cold Yorkshire pudding with marmalade
Syrup sponge isn't always treacle but golden syrup too
sticky toffee pudding
That France is a culinary experience is, in my opinion, a myth.
The only time I've eaten chips in france is when I was a schoolboy.
They're called 'french fries' by you Yanks but these were disgusting because they were burnt on one edge and hardly cooked on the other three.
I ate them because I didn't want to offend my hosts.
Then there's liver pate which comes from force feeding geese until they end up with grossly enlarged livers, poor things. (Pate foie gra)
Snails? Yetch!
Frogs legs? Whoever thought of that must have been on an SAS selection
escape and evade exercise.
French toast? What's so french about that? You can't make french toast using a french stick! It's got to be crustless sliced white bread from Sainsburys for christs sake!
Sacra blur!
Its all about that Sticky Toffee Pudding!
She missed cottage (minced beef filling) and shepherds(lamb or mutton) pie with the potato toppings
She missed roast dinners and hot pot
And fisherman's pie.
You are so correct about the whole dairy thing, any foodstuffs are much better the less processed they are.
Also have you ever considered getting a P. O box so we can send you delicious items that you can then make videos of both the unboxing and of course the actual tasting.
Yes Mate.GET A PO BOX.
Just thinking the same thing. Lots of you tubers do it and it's called happy mail. I once sent a whole box load of stuff to a crafter in New York State, she was so happy and amazed. Sadly she passed away in 2018. Get a PO Box and I will happily send you some non perishable food items.😊
Steve has one, check out his in boxing videos for the address
Steak and kidney is my favourite pie. Pies are often served with mashed potato; however, we do have cottage or shepherd's pie which is either minced (ground) beef or lamb cooked with veg and topped with mashed potato and then baked (delicious).
As for curry, although it's considered a national dish these days, there are just so many different curries to choose from, it's not quite as simple as just having a curry. Most originate from the Indian sub-continent and there are so many regional variations within that cuisine, it's a whole different thing to explore.
You forget to mention that tika masala is a national dish created in the UK
I'm not in love with kidneys myself so I make steak and smoked oyster pudding, which is not a boast, apparently it's quite an old-fashioned thing. Steak and ale pie. We had a wonderful pie shop near us in Bath which gloried in the name of Mrs Lovett's. And the meat pies from there were delicious.
be careful who you send to get the curry, I was given one that was hot!!!
In Birmingham.
A Scotch Pie is the best, followed by a macaroni and cheese pie.
You're absolutely right about fats. We are designed to burn fat. Instead, we tend to eat carbohydrates, which turn to sugar, so we end up burning sugar and storing fat, which leads to obesity. Sponge puddings are usually made using suet, which is the hard fat around an animal's kidneys, grated. They are then steamed. They're like a slightly heavy sponge cake. The one in the video was a syrup pudding or a sticky toffee pudding; one of the two.
Agreed with a small rider, moderation in all things. This low fat malarkey is worse for people than the full fat versions, the flavour is in the fat and to up the flavour they put carbs and sugars in which are worse. We are evolved to deal with fats when combined with a reasonably active lifestyle but not so much added sugars..
@@mrgrumblebum7613 Absolutely! In my pre-teen years, I developed food allergies and one of them was sugar. It was absolute hell finding foods and other products without sugar in them, as it is in absolutely everything! Because I also had an allergy to dairy, I had to buy diabetic dark chocolate from a chemist (tasted gross, because of the artificial sweetener,) had to get rice and oat milk from a speciality grocery shop, had to either bake my own bread or buy from one French bakery (all others had sugar in them, but my Mum taught me how to make delicious bread,) and even when I was sick and went to the doctor, they had to give be diabetic cough syrup and throat lozenges. Even the children's erythromycin (ghastly sweet, pink, chalky stuff,) was full of sugar, so I had to get the adult formulation and break the tablets in half. Back then (mid-90s,) this health food kick was more unusual and three times the price of the regular food in the grocery stores.
Absolutely add a little honey on top of a crumpet. Fantastic combo.
The best steamed sponge is a Sticky Toffee Pudding. Indeed, it's at the top of the tree of world deserts, generally. And I mean the very top.
No, treacle pudding. I haven't made one for years, but I used to make a steamed pudding (vegetable) suet pudding in the microwave. A big puddle of golden syrup at the bottom of a greased Pyrex bowl, then spoon in the suet pudding batter, cover with pleated baking parchment and cook for 4 minutes. It could have been longer, but it wasn't the 2 hours that steaming on the hob takes.
Clotted cream is like a cross between your heavy cream and butter. Scones are made by rubbing equal parts butter to flour until you have a breadcrumb consistency, bind together with milk until you have a fluffy dough. Roll out very gently onto a floured surface, cut out with round cutter, bake at 140 for 20 mins. I think they are slightly softer than biscuits. We also have fruit scones too. Sponge pudding is usually made with suet and steamed not baked, You can have any flavour sponge and sauce but you must cover it with hot custard for best eating. Haggis is lovely, not what most people expect, however I think it is illegal to import into the US,
i was in my 50s before i tried Haggis ,as i hate every thing that go,s into making Haggis ...then a few years ago (at a very up scale wedding in Glasgow) i was offered some ....bloody lovely
WE have a British couple as neighbosr, she made some scones, I tried one, it was so dry and hard .
@@marydavis5234 definitely bad scones then. They should be light and fluffy. Someone says equal parts butter and flour - help! That would make them hard like biscuits! Perfect ratio is 1 part butter or lard, 2 parts liquid, 3 partsflour and do not forget the raising agent, baking powder is fine though purists prefer baking soda and cream of tartar.
@@marydavis5234 she probably over worked the dough.
You really don’t want to mix the scone dough for too long you want to work quick to combine the dough but also ensuring you don’t have your hands too much in it.
You also don’t want to over roll it for cutting them
@@mariecadavieco6118 I think people also over work the dough.
I was always taught by my nannie and then my mum to not handle the dough too much.
Mum was a cook in many restaurants and then taught in the local college and I’ve lost count how many people would come up saying her scones, sticky toffee pudding and food in general was so much better than what they’ve ever had in fancy restaurants/expensive niche cafes
Crumpet with butter , excellent . And also topped with Marmite
I love crumpets with just butter. But my family enjoy them with butter & strawberry jam. Also a nice cup of tea with milk. Yummy 😋
Marmite and toasted cheese without the butter as the cheddar replaces the fat /oil is also great
If you ever visit a tea shop - mostly found in smaller towns rather than large cities - and you see them advertising 'cream teas', don't imagine it's tea with cream in it! It's ordinary tea plus scones, clotted cream and jam.
Biscuit is a word derived from French and means "twice cooked".
There’s a category in the Indian National Curry Championships entirely put aside for the English curry, that is curries entirely invented in the U.K, such as the Balti.
I love your channel Steve!!!! I'm sure a lot of Brits would recognise, help and welcome you when you came to visit.
Being an American, you might notice the food tastes being slightly different to what your accustomed to in American culture.
Living here all my life, our sit down meals like 'Bangers and Mash' ( sausage + mash) are filling and warm ecsecially in the chilly winter months. I
Think we need it with our climate! We tend to put a lot of gravy on meat dinners particularly in winter months and especially in the North!! It Gives the meal flavour and warmness.
Crumpets are like a breakfast or late morning snack alongside orange juice or coffee/ tea. They haven't got much flavour to them, I always put them in the toaster then add our butter which melts into them. The butter gives it the melt flavour coming out from the toaster. I wouldn't usually add syrup to them though.
Go to Greggs the bakers when you come here, they're all over the country, a popular bakery. They have all different varieties of pastries/ meat pastries served hot and sweet cakes for a reasonable cost. I'd recommend a sausage roll from there or a chicken bake, to me very scrumptious and flaky.
As a snack we can put UK chips (fries) on a sandwich ecspecially the chips from a chippy, I usually add ketchup or the curry sauce from the chippy on them which is a filling evening snack... Or even crisps/ (US chips) on a sandwich like from 'walkers crisps' (US alternative lays) as a snack.
Most UK pubs that sell food, have a lot of 'pub classics options' shepherd or cottage pie, which is mashed potatoe with a form of mince meat, it's very warm and hearty and filling. We Tend to have that with vegetables or chips. (We put British chips/fries) with everything!! 🤣
Definitely find a 'Toby Cavery' restaurant here. Basically a help yourself roast meal, give you an insight into a British roast dinner...With options of different meat joint slices from Turkey, beef, pork and gammon of your choice and you can add a range of vegetables with gravy and Yorkshire pudding. Very reasonably priced!
You won't ususally have to tip in a UK restaurant then you would in the US and you'd have to go up to the bar and ask for the bill or when you feel ready to order. But waiters would ask how your meal is or may ask you that too.
Finally a lot of our candy or chocolate which you'd get from a store are much sweeter. Maltesters, Cadbury dairy milk, minstrels for example all go well alongside a British cup of tea, watching t.v on the couch say or going to the cinema.
Oh also a sponge pudding with syrup or warm custard I think you would like, very bouncy, fluffy but is overly sweet with that.
I hope all this helps as much as possible from a UK resident.
Never heard of Crumpets for breakfast!.....very odd!
for crumpets, sometimes I have them just with butter, sometimes with jam (strawberry or peach are my faves) and sometimes nothing can beat cool slices of mature cheddar contrasting with the hot buttery goodness of crumpets! 🙂
I'm weird cos I love butter and Marmite on mine XD
Marmite and cheese is a winning combination. Or butter and anchovy paste. Heaven!
@@tonyaharman8369 yes Marmite and cheese is amazing too! Not had anchovy paste as I really don't like fish or seafood :( but it just shows how versatile crumpets are.
Bliss is a crispy crumpet, buttered, with smoked salmon.
Oh I love crumpets with butter but I also like them with Nutella on just scrumptious x
Steve, I live in Devon. Devon and Cornwall are the two counties where "clotted cream" originated. It is THE most delicious form of cream anywhere on earth! Check out the Food Wishes channel episode on clotted cream to learn about it - this is a food that should be famous all over the world, but isn't, maybe because of the off-putting name!
And the best real pasties! Is Dewdeney still going I wonder? Ah, memories from 55 years ago when I lived in Plymouth and regularly visited Cornwall...
@@NickBR57 Yes Dewdney's are still going, but most people don't rate them highly these days.
@@stumccabe Ah, it was a long time ago. I remember them in the early 60s being very good...
You should definitely try a Cornish pasty (which was mentioned with meat pies) - imagine a stew but without gravy, wrapped in pastry. Very tasty. Sponge pudding is like a rich cake, heated and often with a sauce - there are lots of different flavours. Another thing which wasn't in the video - lots of regions and towns in the UK have their own special types of cake, many of which are very tasty (Banbury cakes, Eccles cakes, Bakewell tarts...)
A homemade pasty, not one of them there Ginster fraudsters 👍😄❤️ Also a cream-tea is part of a Cornish man/woman’s staple diet, me ‘a some.
@@cornishmaid9138
I agree, but as a Devonian it's my duty to point out that it's cream first when it comes to scones.
@@nigelheath7048 I don't think my Marazion-born wife would agree with you!
And it's Definitely Not a Pie...🙄. It's in the name A Cornish Pasty..🤤
Has to be a proper Cornish pasties from Cornwall at Ann’s pasties. And there is a ice cream shop in Cornwall i forget the name but the variety of creamy flavour’s is epic no other ice cream has a patch on this particular shop.
Steve its good to see you clued up about cholesterol 😆 pork pies are lovely. Now with apple or pickle. Steak and ale pie with mash definitely try.
I'm also deeply impressed by the cholesterol/fat knowledge: very very few people anywhere know just what a pack of lies we have been fed for the last fifty years. Go Steve!
Another vote for steak and ale pie. Cornish pasty also a big win.
@@LaserEnginesAGC ooooh cornish pasty, now your talking.
Pork pies are great both hot (well, warm not actually hot) and cold. The flavour and texture can be quite different when you hear the pie up. Matter of personal taste I guess but I prefer them warm.
When you say "pickle", Steve is going to be thinking of a gherkin, not our beautiful Branston type pickle.
One of the best to try Steve is sticky toffee pudding with ice cream, delicious! Good chicken pie, or sausage roll.
Oh yeah sausage roll is a must!
The UK has a great culinary scene if you look deeper than the surface level, many bash our food but many of our food is hearty and warming.
Can't think of anything better than a great big pie, boiled spuds and veg with wallpaper paste thick gravy.
Scones were my late wife's signature dish, I have tried to make them but they are a poor second, you can also include sultanas or a mix of dried fruit and candied peel (aka cake fruit)
My second viewing of this video and I must add sponge pudding. My late mother's signature dish, or rather dishes, ranging through jam, marmalade, golden syrup, spotted dick (sponge pudding with cake fruit, see above). Savoury is a steamed suet pastry container for steak and kidney, diced, in a rich gravy and steamed as in a sponge pudding. The commercial version has a much thinner individual "pudding" case and is called "babies heads" in the navy but enjoyed if you are early in the queue to get one
Crumpets are amazing. The traditional way of eating them is to put so much butter on them that it melts, soaks through them, and starts dripping through the underside.
They're not healthy when they're dripping melted butter, obviously, but they're mega tasty!
Clotted cream (on scones) is a cooked thick cream, the cooking thickens it more, and helps to preserve it - it keeps about twioce as long as raw cream.
You should try a steak and ale pie or a meat and potato pie to begin with, or chicken and gravy x I love steak and kidney but some people find the kidney off putting, but it feels like really tender beef.
Crumpets are amazing, you can put sweet stuff or savoury on them x I really hope you visit the UK soon ❤
I really like the kidney but anyone who does not might like to try steak and mushroom pie instead.
The absolute best type of sponge pudding (IMO) is sticky toffee pudding. Imagine a rich dark cake, made with dark muscovado sugar, lots of diced dried dates, and nuts - usually walnuts or pecans, though nuts are an optional part of this, since not every sticky toffee pudding will have nuts in it. The cake is baked in the oven as most cakes are, but then after baking, it is drenched in hot toffee sauce. This is an insanely sweet sauce made with more of that dark sugar, butter and lots of cream. Some people put more dates in the sauce as well, though they have to be minced to a fine pulp to make the sauce smooth, which can be a bit involved, so it isn't absolutely essential. You need a sweet tooth to appreciate sticky toffee pudding, and there is so much sugar that it has been described by some as diabetes-inducing, though the same could be said for many other sweet puddings.
Omg sticky toffee pudding with custard im starving now ! X
Look into the Sunday Roast, it's a staple of British culture and in our house, as I was growing up, it was law you attended the table for Sunday dinner (I'm in the north, down south they call it Lunch). A mandatory meat chicken, pork, lamb, beef and a lot of it - backed by Yorkshire pudding, roast tatties (halved/quartered potatoes roasted in animal fat until fluffy inside and crispy outside) and the odd vegetable...
U forgot the gravy mate
@@Itshushhush Well that's a good group in its own right...
So glad to hear you eat decent diary products.Scotch eggs are great with a pickled onion,guerkins,chutney,cranberry sauce.
Cornish pasties were first made by miners wives who made a pasty where one half was meat and potato (dinner,)and the other half was cooked fruit etc (pudding) for their men to take down the mines.....
Steve, you can add anything sweet to buttered crumpets...I love cherry jam on them. Pies, either steak and kidney or chicken with ham and leek. Yummy! Sponge puddings can be flavoured cinnamon, or butterscotch, or anything sweet and gooey. It's all pretty versatile. Scones, either sweet or savoury. I like to float a cheese scone in a bowl of tomato soup. We like to experiment and adapt. We had to learn to while rationing was in force, and the best dishes have survived. Shepherds pie is ground lamb, and cottage pie is beef, both of the meats cooked, gravy (and sometimes finely-chopped carrot and peas added) then mashed potato piled on top and cooked in the oven.
Multiple, multiple MULTIPLE types of pudding! The one pictured was a treacle or Golden Syrup pudding.
There are dozens of different types of curry from the different areas on India. Usually vividly flavoured with a range of spices and chillies. They vary from quite mild to super hot. Curry houses are everywhere but there are some amazing ones in Birmingham - palatial restaurants with award winning food. But if you're in the East End of London and someone suggests the traditional British jellied eels, just run for your life.
Can't beat a good ruby from Brum. I used to go to an amazing balti house whenever I was there. Sadly I haven't been for years now but the memory lingers on.
Run from the eels sure... But 2 pie, 2 mash and liquor is to die for
@@lordylou1 Note for Steve - "Ruby" is Cockney rhyming slang, Ruby Murray = curry. Something else you can look into!
I can't believe he's never had a curry, he's really missing out!
It used to fascinate me with the shops in Whitechapel selling turmeric by the sackful.
British salted butter is delighted 😋
My favourite 'curry' is from a local Nepalese restaurant which has many different dishes to choose from. Curry is usually a general term used to describe Indian food, although Chicken Tikka Masala was developed in Britain. Chip butties are wonderful, worth a try. Pie and mash is quite delicious, my favourite being steak and ale. She didn't mention that some scones have sultanas in, my favourites, I put butter, then jam and then clotted cream on.
Turmeric is found in many curry dishes, but certainly not in all. Curry is a generic name for dishes that can contain any number and combination of forty different spices. A commercial curry powder might easily contain a dozen different spices. The taste of turmeric is pretty mild compared to most other curry ingredients so if it is in a curry, it's usually there in a good amount. You can always tell by the way it permanently stains your shirt yellow.
American "biscuits" are usually hot soft savoury buns - layered butter pastry made with buttermilk that rises like a croissant. I love them hot with butter and I usually put egg and bacon in mine. I've seen them with cheese and other savoury additions as well.
UK "scones" are usually a dessert/brunch item served cold with butter/cream/jams. They are more cakey and dense than a US biscuit because they don't use buttermilk and they aren't really layered. (It's the layering that gives height and air in the oven.) Sometimes they have dried fruit added to the scone mix.
I haven't read up on it, but I'd guess the recipe went from the UK to the US with the settlers and diverged from there using what was local and available.
In the UK we would use a bread roll or bap in place of the US biscuit.
I use buttermilk when making scones I use a traditional recipe aswell
Sponge puddings are a huge range of puddings. My favourite are toffee, jam roly poly, salted caramel and apple ones.
Lots of good advice in the comments 😁 the pudding looked a bit like sticky toffee pudding. Delicious 😋
Well Steve, for the best cornish pasties you got to get them from Cornwall. Meat and Potato pies you best go to Lancashire. Yes you can get these all over the UK at a Greggs, which are decently good but not the best, but they do great sausage rolls. Crumpets with butter and raspberry jam. Sponge with Devon custard.
Mmmm, sponge and custard! My favourite since my early school days. 😂
Safe options for a meat pie (both beef-based): minced beef & onion, and steak & ale. You'll usually get a better pie at a gastropub than at a chippy (fish & chip shop). {there's no pie emoji!}
That's a pretty good video. Details to know:
There are many sausages recipes, some flavoured with herbs (eg. sage), or spices (eg white pepper). Most butchers will have their own recipes. My local butcher makes sausages with Scotch Bonnet or 'Psycho' chillies. He also uses some French recipes, which are a nice change. A Christmas favourite is small sausages wrapped with streaky bacon, baked in the oven along with the roast.
British bacon has more variety than just the streaky, fatty, rashers common in the USA,. It's commonly 'back bacon', more like ham, with an 'eye' of meat, and less fat. There is also 'side bacon' with with both streaky and back, which is very good in 'butties'.
Start with Steak or Steak and Ale pies. Steak and kidney are delicious because the kidneys make the gravy extra rich. Again, many local butchers make their own meat pies fresh each day. They are fully cooked and could be eaten cold, but are much better warm. However, heated food has tax (basic foods have no tax) so many butchers only have them warm when they are fresh out of the oven (when they're perfect). Otherwise, you'll need access to an oven. You could microwave a pie for 30 seconds to warm it, but more than that ruins the pastry. So either you need access to an oven, or you're likely buying from a takeaway, pub, or restaurant..
There are lots of recipes for sponge pudding. It's steamed cake, not cake baked in an oven. I prefer dried fruit steamed pudding. Commonly they have a good jam (fruit preserve), golden syrup, treacle (light molasses), chocolate sauce, or sometimes berry-fruit steamed with the cake.
The 'biscuits' I ate in restaurants in Houston Texas were slightly heavier and less crumbly than good scones. Clotted cream is actually cooked which makes it thicker and sweeter than heavy cream, and 'creamier' than butter.
As well as France, Italy has great culinary traditions.
Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas, and a Healthy, Peaceful, Prosperous New Year. ☮
Aww man, I've not had sticky toffee pudding and ice cream in so long. And I could really go for a curry with some paneer and mushroom rice. Why did I watch this several hours before I get paid and now I gotta wait until after midnight 😭
Toad in the hole is an easy and hearty meal, normally with beef and onion gravy (usually either OXO or Bisto gravy). It is basically a massive Yorkshire pudding with sausages and gravy put in the middle. Have a look for some recipes, you won't be disappointed (just do the basics, not fancy ones).
Chip butties are great. The butter melts in the chips, lovely!
Curry is our national dish, we have whole areas of cities dedicated to it, I make at least 4 curries a month and freeze them and have once a week, utterly delightful anything from a makhani a tikka or a nice Singapore curry. Totally splendid
Why would you want to eat something that looks like it came from a baby's nappy??
@@patsyconsole9065 a good curry looks and tastes delicious
Vile slop
@@angelaregan475 yeah, it's for sophisticated pallets. It's obviously delicious to many as it is England's national dish, specifically tikka. Yum yum yum
I always use some honey as well as butter on my crumpets. I like to beat together the softened butter and raw honey and then spread it as one, rather than one after the other. Make sure to swipe the crumpet across the plate before each bite to catch the leaking melted juices.
Sponge is a type of cake
And yes sponge puddings have many flavors
And we also use the word pudding to describe the treat at the end of a meal
She's right about cheese... Real Cheddar, Stilton, Red Leicester, Cheshire, the list goes on and on.
First meat pie? I say beef and onion, with mash, but it has to be a good one
We all love curry. Every town has at least one Indian restaurant or takeaway
No maple syrup on your crumpets..
Custard........just custard.... mmmmmm. Custard
The best she didn't mention..roast beef, rare, with roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding, veg, and proper beef gravy
Hey Steve,
You're right in London there are pie and mash shops that usually serve a mince meat pie or 2, a couple of scoops of mash potato with liquor (which isn't alcoholic but a parsley based sauce!). Many of these shops are based in the east end of London where they used to serve cheap meals for the workers in centuries gone by!
Chicken tikka masala is some say Brits favourite dish. It's a mildly spiced curried chicken, cream and tomato based curry served with pilau rice.
Just to add, a chicken tikka masala is a BRITISH curry created either in Glasgow or Birmingham (depending on which reference you look up) by a Bangladeshi chef in the 1970s
@@keithparker2206 great point Keith. Thanks
I thought he was talking about cottage pie or shepherd's pie
If you are having a meat pie, I recommend steak and kidney, the kidney adds richness to the gravy.
Bread and dripping, stir together the creamy fat and brown jelly from a roasted beef joint, add salt if necessary and spread it thickly on slices of fresh baked bread. Food to die for (literally).
Lardy cake, a cake made with flour, lard, butter and dried fruit. With some yeast, it is kneaded like bread and left to rise before baking.
Don't avoid a chip buttie! They taste great! Salt and vinegar with tomato or brown sauce! And pies are so delicious. My favourite is steak and kidney but all others are great too. Pie and mash from a pie and shop is something that I grew up with in London and LOVE it. You can still get them in London, Manzies, but the shops are rarer now. The pies are lamb with delicious pastry. It comes with a green "liquor" which is not alcohol but a sauce with eel in. You are in for a treat when you come here. The food we have is so varied and totally wonderful. Try. Everything you can. I'm now off to buy some pies.
Liquor in a pie shop is parsley sauce - no eels.
@@charlestaylor3027 they use the water used to boil the jellied eels for the liquor
The best pudding is Christmas Pudding, served with brandy sauce. Ingredients include dried fruit, spices and treacle.
Curry, this is the story I was told, I’ve no idea how true it is, but here goes…
Curry became popular in the UK after the Great War (WWI). Most battalions of the British Army had served in India at some point and the regimental cooks had learnt how to make curry as it was popular with the troops. When in the trenches at the front in France food had to be cooked in the rear areas and then sent up to the front line. Even in insulated metal boxes (called hay boxes) by the time it got to the front line it would be cold or semi-cold. The great thing about curry was that even when it was cold it was still hot, because of all the spices. When the war was over all the lads came home and their poor wives had to learn how to make curry. Another good thing about curry is that it can be made out of any type of meat, fresh or tinned, cow or horse, it doesn’t seem to make much difference.
I work in a tea and cake cafe and make scones every day, todays choices were mixed fruit, cranberry and white chocolate, chocolate n honeycomb, dark chocolate and cherry, maple butter,caramel and biscoff, three cheese, cheese n bacon
Yummy!
You're thinking of a shepherd's pie mashed potatoes with peas and mince you should try steak and cheese pie
Yep, that's the "mashed potato with some sort of pie", definitely.
@@steelcrown7130 that has to be what he's talking about
@@Atomic_cheddar Yep, no question.👍
Cornish pasty is a must and if you have crumpets they are best toasted over an open fire.
Chip butties are yummy and if you grew up in Birmingham where I did , as a child I loved crisp (potato chip) butties. I still indulge in them occasionally now
On the subject of scones ,there are several different kinds ,both sweet and savory .Plain sweet scones or fruited scones (With sultanas in them ) are usually served with butter ,jam and cream .The most popular savory scones are cheese scones and they are normally eaten with just butter but can be topped with whatever savory item you like .It's sometimes possible to find savory scones with cheese and bits of bacon or ham baked in ,or cheese and onion .The best meat pies imo are either steak and ale pies ,very rich and meaty or Scotch pies ,which are made from minced lamb ,mutton and black pepper .The crust is a thin ,crispy hot water pastry (made using hot rather than cold water ) and they pack a bit of a punch .The variety of pies and other savory pastries is large though ,so you're bound to find something you like .
Puddings are usually foods that are steamed Cooked or boiled. It's as simple as that.
Uk does have a good food culture but in home cooking we tend to make simpler everyday meals just like Americans probably do , the Brits excel at pies of all kinds and there are hundreds to choose from as each area will have their own speciality
Agreed, I love a nice pie, steak and ale being a favourite.
As a retired English chef and pastry chef I can tell you all about sponge puddings, some are made with butter, sugar, eggs and flour and some use beef suet instead of butter. The suet type can be sweet or savoury. Steak and kidney pudding a mould is lined with suet dough and filled with steak and kidney and sometimes oysters, beef and ale etc. Sea pie is stew of fish, chicken or any other meat cooked in a saucepan with a lid of suet dough and a regular lid on top. Sweet puddings, steamed syrup sponge you put syrup in a pudding basin, the sponge on top and steam it and then turn it out, can be served with English custard, fresh cream or ice cream. Black cap pudding uses currants instead of syrup. Jam pudding the same. Eve's pudding uses apples. Sticky toffee pudding has become popular in recant decades. If you roll suet dough out flat, put jam or syrup or dried fruit in it and roll it up in a cloth and boil it, it is called granny's leg. If you stuff it into an old shirt sleeve and boil it, it is called shirt sleeve pudding. Sussex pond pudding is made by lining a pudding basin with suet dough, adding a huge amount of butter and suger, one whole lemon and more butter and sugar with a lid of dough. This is steamed for several hours and when turned out and cut loads of buttery lemon syrup flow out. Chocolate pudding is made with regular sponge pudding where 25% of the flour is replaced with coco powder and served with chocolate custard.
My Grandma used to make our crumpets from scratch. Generally just butter is the standard but some put cheese on theirs and grill ( broil) it. Some put jam or honey on theirs too. We do indeed have English Muffins. Sponge pudding is sweet light fluffy cake that's steamed. You get sticky toffee pud, jam sponge puddings, golden syrup pudding, spotted dick, scones can be either sweet with sultanas or not and mixed with grated cheese great onto of stews or casseroles.
In terms of pies, nothing beats a steak and kidney pie. Although I prefer steak and kidney pudding which has a softer, suet dough casing rather than a hard pastry.
With mash potatoes you are thinking either of a shepherd's pie, lamb mince topped with mash and then baked. Or a cottage pie which substitutes beef mince for the lamb.
Pudding is generally served as the desert after a main meal with cake being a teatime food. The same or similar sponge cake is used but cake is normally served cold, often with a cream and jam filling. Pudding is normally served hot. The topping in the photo looks like golden syrup which is essentially a lighter version of treacle or molasses. You could probably substitute maple syrup for golden although the flavour is different but it does the same job.
You're really missing out on not having curries. Way more spices are involved that just tumeric. Indian takaway is the BEST. We have it at least once a month, love it. I loved the food so much when I went to India itself, so great for vegetarians nom nom nom.
Scotch eggs: In some pubs the scotch eggs are done with soft boiled eggs, not hard boiled. Bangers & Mash: If you go to some farms where they breed pigs or cows they occasionally have a shop where they might sell good meat filled sausages they make on the farm. Curry: It depends on your palate regarding the spice strength. Sponge puddings: In the picture they are sticky toffee puddings.
Never tried maple syrup with a crumpet before but i bet it would go with it 100%. I'm going to try it the next time i buy crumpets.
They are great with golden syrup - sure maple syrup will be good too.
Steve I love watching the expressions on your face when you are on your discovery journeys. It is a delight to listen to your reaction especially when you are finding something out or seeing something for the first time, that you find pleasing. 😊
scones Christmas pudding trifle oh my god trifle if trifle is not on this list I will kick off
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@@numptynoonoos there was no trifle those bastards
Chips and mushy peas is one food I loved in england, simple not full of superfluous spices just tasty.
Nice to see you're on the right path with nutrition 👍
Fried blacl pudding is the bomb and a Manchester egg is a scotch egg using a mix of black pudding and sausage with an egg in the middle also crumpets are some times called pykletts and go great with a fried or poached egg yum
Sponge pudding is a type of pudding. There are other types of putting bread and butter pudding for example. They are freaking delicious by the way
Hi. I am not a great meat eater but love the ordinary sausages so I love scotch eggs. I usually have one with a salad or maybe with pickles (for us in the UK pickles are pickled onions, pickled red cabbage and pickled beetroot. I spent 6 months working on Staten Island (NY) and couldn’t find pickled onions anywhere. Another great snack, or a bar meal, is a Ploughman’s Lunch. Basically a chunk of proper cheese (Cheddar, Wensleydale or Red Leicester), a big chunk of fresh bread, some pickles and some Branston Pickle! Just waiting for my “Toad In The Hole” to cook for my evening meal.
The meat pie with mash is probably either Cottage Pie or Shepherds Pie. Cottage pie is made with a beef mince covered in mash, sometimes with grated cheddar on top. Shepherds Pie is similar but made of mutton or lamb, mutton is sheep meat that's older than lamb.
Sponge puddings can have umpteen flavours, popular ones in bar meals is Sticky Toffee Pudding. A sponge pudding covered in a sauce made with a sweet liquid made with plenty of sauce made out of dates, double cream and dark sugars Other sponges very popular here is Spotted Dick! A sponge base filled with fruits such as currants & sultanas. All sweet pies are either eaten with custard, ice cream or cream.
Love your reaction to the sandwich.....here you can put almost anything in one should you so wish, crisps (you call chips), a banana sandwich is a lovely snack, meats, jams/spreads, Marmite and the classic cheese sandwich or with cucumber, pickle etc......when I was a small boy my grandmother would spoil me with a sugar sandwich !!! ( thought makes me cringe now lol) ;-)
Yeah someone else who likes banana sandwiches
I also like apple sandwiches
Steak and ale pie is gorgeous!
Sponge puddings come in many different flavours, sticky toffee pudding, spotted dick, chocolate cake, etc.
The best curry IMHO is Chicken Korma and Pilau rice. Very mild curry. Nothing wrong with a chip butty :P
Crumpets are butter only (sometimes jam as well) but nothing else.
Meat, meat & onion and meat and potato pies are amazing.
Jam rolly polly 😋
Chicken korma definitely but a good king prawn korma comes a very close second.
Chip butty. Nothing wrong with having carbs on your carbs. With added butter. :-)
Scones for the most part are sweet, sometimes with raisins and are best served straight from the oven while still warm with jam and cream. You can also get savoury scones like cheese or herb scones usually served with butter but they are not really the same as American biscuits. Curries are incredibly popular in the UK, Indian restaurants and takeaways are everywhere and Chicken Tikka Masala has even been declared our national dish. Turmeric is only one of many spices used in curry.
Sultanas, not raisins.
The word pudding can mean multiple things in the UK. It can be a sausage like black pudding (the blood sausage), it can be a general slang word for dessert, or it can be specifically a sponge pudding which would be similar to a cake but usually served hot with its own sauce and then either custard or ice cream on the side.
you forgot the savoury of the yorkshire pudding
@@robchissy very true
Steak & kidney pudding, often called babbies yed in my neck of the woods (baby's head)
Steak or chicken and mushroom pie, Cornish pasty, sausage rolls. Syrup sponge and custard, sticky toffee pudding.
Other meals; toad in the hole, Yorkshire pudding, roast dinners, English breakfasts.
Hope all is well, take care
If you do decide to try curry, start with a chicken korma or a tikka masala which are 2 of the mildest curries (my favourites too) and go from there.
Try a chip butties, savoury minced pie, chicken korma or chicken tikka masala, cornish pasties from Borough market London, roast beef & Yorkshire pudding with roasted potatoes & onion gravy, with creamed horse radish sauce. Sticky toffee pudding with custard, takeaway fish & chips with Irish curry sauce & mushy peas, full English breakfast with black pudding, haggis meal with vegetables & gravy.
I would add Donna Kebab to the list, which is a classic late night after the pub / club food
for curries depending on how you like your spicy food
Korma = mild
Biryani. Balti, Masala = medium
madras . Jalfrezi = medium to hot
Vindaloo, phall = very spicy
Phall - put a toilet roll in the fridge before hand.
Cannot think of anything worse than those which you have listed.
Most of those are only takeaways.
Best place to go, if you fancy a punch-up after the pubs turn out.
According to TV, America only has heavy cream, in the UK we have Single cream, Double cream, Whipping cream, Clotted cream and UHT cream. The fat content varies. You can whip up Double and Whipping cream, Clotted is already very thick.
TV is wrong. , We having heavy cream, light cream, sour cream etc...
Can you do a video looking at UK traditions around Christmas times and food eaten
Great idea, that would be good
Haven't had one for years but I used to love a curry chip roll
Lovely
I lived in the US and American cheese is improving, in terms of the local dairy stuff, but not quite there yet in terms of European quality
Cornwall also has places where they make their own cheese and other places here too. So much variety now. 👍🏼
This may invite unpleasant responses but I absolutely love sliced ham and Marmite on hot buttered crumpets, it is just a dripping meaty fat filled mouthful of heaven.
Pie & Mash with Liquor (a parsley sauce) in London is a must. The pies are made with a minced beef and onion filling. Super comfort food that's also cheap. Oh, and a cup of tea to wash it down 🙂
Or maybe a nice shandy
I followed the Pie and Mash site for a couple of days....sadly the photos all looked the same!
Meat mashed potato and vegetables in the pastry is called Cornish pasty. It was made as a staple meal for miners in Cornwall, as it could be eaten cold during a lunch break .
I'm happy for us to keep our haggis and black pudding ☺️
No absolutely disgusting
Steve, if you and your good wife ever come to the UK it would be an honour to cook for you. Some things she left off the list are Beef Wellngton. , heaven. Which is a joint of beef fillet wrapped in a pancake with a layer of mushrooms. Then that is wrapped in puff pastry. Toad in the Hole, meaty sausages in a batter pudding called Yorkshire Pudding served with onion gravy. And the Great British Trifle, distinct layers of fruit, jelly (jello), sponge (often laced with booze) custard and whipped cream.
NO TRIFLE
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Clotted cream is effectively cooked cream. Double (heavy), cream is heated very gently for about 24 hours until a crust of solids form on the top. The solids are the clotted cream. It's very rich and buttery - imagine something like a mixture of thick cream and mascarpone.
Gammon is a leg of pork, cured. It's sold raw in either roasting joints or slices which can be fried or grilled. It's not ham which is always sold ready cooked or bacon which is a different cut of the pig - for reference we mostly use back bacon from the loin. We would call American bacon streaky bacon and it's from the belly. We also have middle bacon which is back bacon from the loin and streaky bacon from the belly in together one rasher.
The Brits palate has definitely sky rocketed over the past two decades. My sister visited the UK 30 years ago and complained that the food was boring and bland. But then Gordon, Gary, Heston, Jamie and all the others happened and the UK was never the same again!
You can add a sweet topping to a crumpet such as jam (obviously not like American jelly) but a, they are already slightly sweet and b, butter is all you need
We have jelly, jam and fruit spreads in the US, they are nothing alike.