British Food Shop
Look into our freezer for some strange things. Crumpets, for example.
Here is a history of British Cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine
"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it; and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied; and it is all one."
M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
“Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.”
Robert Orben (1927--) American humorist.
“A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
We can begin to feed!”
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
Frank Zappa
To help with your recipes
http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/londonfood2.htm
and
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/food.html
and
http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/desserts/brownies/05/rec0514.html
To help with your herbs visit this site
http://www.therepertoire.com/herbs/index.htm
or
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/germ/index.html?frames
To help with the cooking
CONVERSION CHARTS
Weight (lb, oz, - kg, gr.)
ounces nearest use
(oz) whole (gr) unit (gr)
1 28 25
2 57 50
3 85 75
4 113 100
5 142 150
6 170 175
7 198 200
8 227 225
9 255 250
10 (½ lb) 283 275
11 312 300
12 340 350
13 368 375
14 396 400
15 425 425
16 (1 lb) 454 450
17 482 475
18 510 500
19 539 550
20 567 575
Liquid (pt, - ml.)
pints nearest use
(pt) whole (ml) unit (ml)
¼ 142 150
½ 283 300
¾ 425 450
1 567 600
1¼ 851 900
1¾ 992 1000
Note ....
1 dl (Danish measure) = 10 cl or 100 ml
Oven temperatures
°C °F gas
mark
110 225 ¼
120 250 ½
140 275 1
150 300 2
160 325 3
180 350 4
190 375 5
200 400 6
220 425 7
230 450 8
240 475 9
Imperial American
solid
1 lb butter 2 cups
1 lb flour 4 cups
1 lb sugar 2 cups
1 lb icing sugar 3 cups
8 ozs rice 1 cup
liquid
¼ pint 2/3 cup
½ pint 1¼ cups
¾ pint 2 cups
1 pint 2½ cups
1½ pints 3¾ cups
2 pints 5 cups
an imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces
an American pint is 16 fluid ounces
NOTE.......
use only one measuring system - i.e. metric or imperial -as the systems are not interchangeable
Spoons
British = American = Australian
1 teaspoon (5 ml) 1 teaspoon (5 ml) 1 teaspoon (5 ml)
1 tablespoon (17.7 ml) 1 tablespoon (14.2 ml) 1 tablespoon (20 ml)
2 tablespoons 3 tablespoons 2 tablespoons
3½ tablespoons 5 tablespoons 3 tablespoons
4 tablespoons 5 tablespoons 3½ tablespoons