English food is often considered unappetising by those from other countries. However traditional English meals can be both delicious nutritious. Some typical English dishes are fish and chips (fish, eg cod, "rock", plaice or skate, fried in batter and served with fried potato chips - perhaps one of the earliest take aways), the English breakfast (fried eggs and bacon served with sausage, fried tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread...) and the Sunday roast (roast beef, pork, lamb or chicken served with roast potatoes and other vegetables and often Yorkshire pudding).There are also numerous regional dishes. For example, in London it is common to find pie and mash shops where minced meat pies are served with mashed potatoes and gravy or parsley sauce (known as liquor). Shellfish (eg winkles, prawns, cockles, whelks) and jellied eels are the traditional cockney Sunday tea.

 

canelle = cinnamon
eyren = eggs
fars = stuffing
fride = cold
manged brede = manchet bread
mary = rosemary
payn man = bread loaf
pomewater = a type of apple
sack = a dry amber wine from Spain
saunders = sandalwood spice
seeth/sethe = boil
y-sothe = boiled
y-lechyd = cut in slice