reference: francatelli-1852
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- Bacon and Cabbage
Bacon steaks with boiled cabbage and, commonly, carrots.
- Bacon Salad
Raw salad leaves and veg with fried bacon. Known at least since Francatelli 1852
- Baked Suet Pudding
Dough of flour, suet milk and seasonings, baked under a roast. A form of Under Roast Pudding
- Bone Broth
Broken bones, boiled. Drained, skimmed and vegetables added with thickener such as barley or peasmeal (Francatelli 1852, etc)
- Braised Red Cabbage
Thinly sliced red cabbage braised with sugar, or cider, and vinegar. Commonly served with dark meat.
- Buttered Parsnips
Whole, or mashed, boiled parsnips, with butter (Francatelli 1852, etc).
- Chesterfield Ice-Cream Pudding
A large ice-cream mound, hollowed and filled with fruit (pineapples, damsons, etc) and surrounded by 'Chesterfield Biscuits', tiny (c2ins?) wafer cones filled w...
- Cowheel Broth
Cowheel with herbs and rice (Francatelli 1852)
- Egg-hot
Hot beer with sugar, spices and egg whisked-in (Francatelli 1852)
- Eggs and Bacon
Fried or grilled bacon rashers with eggs fried, poached or scrambled (Francatelli 1852, etc)
- Faggots
Large meatballs of breadcrumbs or rusk with herbs and minced meat and offal (most traditionally pork heart and liver), baked close together so that, on rising, ...
- Fish Pie
Assorted fish pieces, now almost invariably in a cream sauce, under a topping of mashed potato, baked. Ocasionally with a paste crust (Francatelli 1852, Mrs.B, ...
- Sausage Dumplings
Sausage wrapped in suet paste and boiled. Known since Francatelli 1852, and very frequently repeated in cookbooks and news articles up to the 1950s.
- Sausage Rolls
A finger-food-sized sausage, or a roll of sausage-meat, enveloped in a cover of, usually flaky, flour paste, with the ends exposed, baked. In one early receipt ...
- Tea-Cup Bread-pudding
Breadcrumb, egg, sugar, milk and spice pudding boiled in a teacup (Francatelli 1852)
- Thick Milk
Milk or buttermilk boiled with flour. Repeatedly mentioned in newspapers and texts from the mid 18th Century as a food for the ill, or a breakfast for the poor.
- Toast Water
Water in which very hard burned toast has been soaked. Strained and served cold (Francatelli 1852, etc)
- Treacle Pudding
Soda-raised steamed sponge pudding with treacle mixed-in (Francatelli 1852)
- Tripe and Onions
Small pieces of bleached thick seam tripe stewed in milk with coarsely-cut onions and a herb, typically bay, but occasionally sage or parsley. Now usually serve...
- Vegetable Marrow
The Vegetable Marrow is any of several kinds of squash or gourd, the fruits of Cucurbita pepo. In English practice the flowers are not eaten, though these are a...
- Vegetable Porridge
Mixed vegetables (Francatelli 1852 suggests carrot, turnip, onion, celery, parsnip with butter, parsley, chervil and thyme) boiled until fallen.