snacks

Pounded anchovies, spiced and garnished, on toast (Eaton 1822, Mrs.B, etc)

Sandwich filled with grilled bacon.

Crumpets coated with a mixture of Stilton, butter, Port and nuts, toasted.

Bread slice smeared with the richly flavoured, cold, set, juices and fat collected from beneath a roast, long considered a very basic food for the lowest member...

(also spelled 'Buttie') Hot potato chips pressed between two slices of (usually buttered white) bread.

Thinly sliced, very slightly seasoned, cucumber in white bread. Known from literary references from about 1890 onwards.

A Whet of Individual stoned prunes or plums stuffed with a spicy mixture (eg. hot mango chutney), wrapped in bacon and baked. Served on a fried bread sippet. An...

Minced mushrooms and veal, cooked in butter and cream, spread on toast (Eaton 1822, etc).

Chopped whole hard-boiled egg with curly cress sprouts, often in salad cream or mayonnaise.

Thin sliced wholemeal bread with apricot jam, Dijon mustard and ham. Cut into small rectangles, triangles or fingers.

Chopped ham with cream and lightly scrambled eggs, hot, served on toast.

Usually sliced mushrooms sautéed in ample butter, on toasted bread slice. Often highly flavoured with pepper or other spice.

Fried bread with hole in the middle, an egg dropped into the hole and fried.

Small, c1ins, strips of pork skin fried in fat so as to bubble and expand. Salted and served as a snack, commonly as an accompaniment to beer. A form of crackli...

Very thin potato slices fried crisp in oil, seasoned and served as a cold snack.

Slices of bread enclosing a flavoursome filling.

Lightly fried shrimps on toast.

(also spelled 'Buttie')

A very thin piece of cold toast between 2 slices of thin bread-and-butter in the form of a sandwich, pepper and salt to taste (Mrs.B). "This sandwich may be var...

"Cut from a nice fat Cheshire, or any good rich cheese, some slices about½inch thick, and place them between some slices of brown bread-and-butter, like sandwic...

Whole watercress leaves and stalks, usually on white bread and butter.