United Kingdom

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

United Kingdom

7 recipes

Photograph of Walnut ketchup.
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Walnut ketchup

A dark liquid seasoning made from young green walnuts steeped in salt and vinegar, then boiled with spices, shallots and anchovies. It belongs to the British ketchups of the 1700s and 1800s.

Britain
· Condiments
Illustrative glass of rhubarb wine beside rhubarb stalks; Beeton's 1861 source does not specify the finished wine's color or appearance.

Rhubarb wine

S. O. Beeton’s 1861 household book records rhubarb wine made with rhubarb pulp, water, loaf sugar, lemon rind and isinglass; its historical directions do not establish a safe modern fermentation endpoint.

Britain
Drinks
Glossy deep brown roast gravy in a white gravy boat beside sliced roast beef and golden potatoes.

Gravy and roasting juice sauce

A savoury sauce made from the juices a roast releases in the tin, reduced with stock and thickened, or thickened with flour or starch.

Britain
· Condiments
Creamy British bread sauce in a ceramic bowl with roast poultry in the background

Bread sauce

Bread sauce is a British sauce of milk infused with onion, clove and bay, thickened with stale breadcrumbs and finished with butter, served with roast chicken or turkey.

Britain
· Condiments
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Tartare sauce

A mayonnaise sauce with chopped gherkins or capers, herbs and lemon, served with fried and grilled fish. It was named in nineteenth-century France alongside steak tartare.

France
Condiments
A small stack of plain round crumpets with porous tops and golden griddled sides.

Crumpets: King Arthur version

A yeasted milk-and-water batter cooked in greased rings, then turned to finish. This modern formula also includes baking powder.

Britain · Modern method
· Grains and starches