England stories and tales

This article features three traditional English recipes – Cornish Pasty, Scotch Eggs and Bread and Butter Pudding – that are still very common in England today: I hope you enjoy them!
Cornish Pasty Recipe

Ingredients:

Short crust pastry (make your own: 1/2 lb flour and 1/2 cup of lard)
Potatoes (peeled and diced into small cubes)
Stewing steak (diced)
Onion (diced—optional)
Pinch [...]

Humorist Dave Barry once wrote that the traditional dishes of England include “Toad in the Hole, Bubble and Squeak, Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Spotted Dick, Bug-in-a-Bucket, Willie One-Polyp, Tonsil-and-Toast, Whack-a-Doodle Johnson, and Fester Pudding.” If you’re familiar with UK food, you already know that only about half of those names are jokingly fabricated, while the other half, [...]