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 of salt / Pinch of pepper / Pinch of flour / Dollop of butter

Method:

• Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and cut it to roughly the same size of a dinner plate.
• Place the pastry circle onto a piece of aluminum foil and place the diced steak, potatoes, and onions in the center of the pasty.Leave enough room so that when folded in half there is still room at the edges to pinch them together.
• Season the filling with salt and pepper, a dab of butter, and a pinch of flour.
• Fold the pastry in half and pinch the edges together. You may want to use a bit of water on your fingertips to help seal it.
• Fold up the foil around the pasty and crunch it together at the top.
• Cook in the oven at 375 degrees F. for about two hours. During the last half hour, open up the foil to allow the edges of the pasties to brown.

Scotch Egg Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 hard-cooked eggs (cold)
• 1 pound (500gm) sausage meat
• 1/2 cup flour
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3/4 cup fine bread crumbs
• Vegetable oil for frying

Method:

• Peel the boiled eggs
• Divide the sausage meat into six equal portions
• Roll each egg in flour, then press a portion of sausage meat around it until the egg is fully sealed inside the sausage.
• Dip each sausage/egg ball into the beaten eggs, and then roll them in bread crumbs.
• Heat the oil in a skillet to roughly 350 degrees F, then cook each egg for about five minutes, or until the sausage has cooked thoroughly and browned.
• Drain excess grease using paper towels and serve either warm or chilled.

Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 loaf of white bread (unsliced)
• 1/2 pint whole milk
• butter for spreading
• brown sugar
• dried fruit or other soft fruit
• pinch of ginger / pinch of cinnamon / pinch of nutmeg

Method:

• Slice the loaf of bread into 3/4-inch slices and cut off the crusts. Butter each slice on both sides and place them in the bottom of a baking dish.
• Sprinkle the dried or soft fruits on top of the buttered bread slices, then follow with sprinkled brown sugar.
• Butter more bread slices and place them over the fruit.
• Pierce the bread a few times using a knife or fork, then pour the milk on top. When the bread is soaked, sprinkle brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg on top.
• Bake at 275 degrees F until the bread has risen a bit. Best served with vanilla ice cream or hot custard.

Author Credits

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The names of British cheeses can also ring strangely in American ears, and there are a lot of them to do the ringing. With over 700 types of cheese being made and sold in the Queen’s land, it can be daunting for a tourist to select one in the first place. With that in mind, here are some of the oddest-sounding British cheeses, and a brief guide to what lies beneath the laughable moniker.

1) Pantysgawn

Though it sounds like a gang of lady cheesemakers lost their undergarments, the Welsh cheese gets its name from the farm where it was first made: Pant-Ysgawn. The product is actually a soft, creamy-textured cheese made from goats milk. You can buy it in logs, like traditional goat’s cheese, and frequently with the addition of crushed peppercorns or fresh herbs.

2) Yarg

Could it be possible that this cheese was made by pirates? “Yarg! Avast me hearties!” Not unless there are pirates in Cornwall. Made from cow’s milk, Yarg is a semi-hard cheese made distinctive by being wrapped in nettle leaves, resulting in a unique, almost mushroom-like flavor. A popular variety is Wild Garlic Yarg, which swaps the nettles for garlic leaves.

3) Stinking Bishop

While there’s no doubt that Stinking Bishop smells strongly, it doesn’t completely explain the second part of the name. Why “bishop?” Why not name it Fetid Cardinal or Malodorous Pope instead? Molded into large, rinded wheels, the Gloucestershire cheese is said to have an odor resembling dirty socks and wet towels. The cheese increased in sales by 500% when it was used in a popular animated movie to revive a corpse.

4) Hereford Hop

The next popular UK dance craze? No, Hereford Hop gets its name from hops, the very same hops used in the brewing of beer. The cheese, which is made in Gloucestershire rather than Hereford, was revived in 1988 from a historic recipe, and has a rind made of toasted hops. The cheese has a beer-like taste that many people say goes well with –you guessed it– beer.

5) Caerphilly

In America, the word “Philly” in connection with cheese conjures up images of cheescake ingredients. In Wales, they like their Caerphilly even more than we like our cream cheese, so much so that the town of Caerphilly displays a sculpture of the hard, white cow’s milk cheese and holds a three-day festival to celebrate the product every year. The cheese is known outside of Wales for its noticeably salty taste.

If these selections don’t float your dairy boat, how about some Lincolnshire Poacher, a wedge of Fine Fettle, or a big slab of Croglin? Just remember that while British cheeses may have funny names, they’re seriously good. One thing’s for certain: they’re better than a big order of Bug-in-a-Bucket.