1538 traditional british pub Recipes

pickling onions, peeled, malt vinegar or 1 1/2 pints pickling vinegar, ready-mixed pickling spices (or 2 tbsp of your your own mix using -- green, white and black peppercorns, coriander seeds,)

crusty bread, thick slices or 2 large crusty bread rolls or 1/2 baguette, fresh butter, mature farmhouse cheddar cheese or 8 oz stilton cheese or 8 oz wensleydale cheese or 8 oz cheshire cheese or 8 oz lancashire cheese or 8 oz double gloucester cheese or 8 oz red leicester cheese, pickled onions, chutney (such as, branston pickle , pan yan pickle or ploughman s pickle) or 4 tbsp pickles (such as, branston pickle, pan yan pickle or ploughman s pickle), tomatoes, spring onions, salt, pepper

bread (white is traditional, but i use low-carb rye), heinz baked beans in tomato sauce (both products come in a blue can, do not use american pork & beans or bush s beans etc. only heinz), worcestershire sauce

strong cider, soft dark brown sugar, cooking apple, cored & chopped, ground mixed spice, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, currants, raisins, sultanas, glace cherries, finely chopped, candied peel, almonds, finely chopped, orange , juice and zest of, lemon , juice and zest of, brandy or 1/4 pint rum

icing sugar , sifted, ground almonds, egg yolk, beaten lightly, orange juice, drops almond essence, plain flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, currants, sultanas, butter, caster sugar, eggs, milk, to mix

shredded beef suet (or grated butter) or 2 cups shredded vegetable suet (or grated butter), light brown sugar, raisins, cooking apples, currants, candied lemon peel, candied orange peel, citrus mixed candied peel, ground nutmeg, mace, almond essence, blanched almonds, brandy or 2 tbsp apple juice, lemon , juice and rind of, sherry wine

butter, bread, dried fruit, eggs, milk , blended with cream, cream , blended with milk, sugar, nutmeg

lean ground beef or 2 lbs ground pork, sweet onion, chopped, no-salt-added ketchup, chili powder, pub mustard (recipezaar recipe id #19094), salt, fresh ground pepper, newcastle brown ale (optional)

pork shoulder or 3 1/2 lbs pork butt, trimmed of fat and cut up, water, onion, quartered, garlic cloves, minced, salt, red chili sauce (see (to be used with traditional tamales) for ), shortening, masa harina, baking powder, dried corn husks (about 8 inches long)

eggs, hard boiled and peeled (see kittencal s technique for perfect easy-peel hard-boiled eggs), malt vinegar (no substitutions for authentic pub flavor), hot pepper, minced, black peppercorns, cinnamon sticks, allspice

ground lean pork, lean ground veal or 1/2 lb lamb, suet, fresh breadcrumb , made from 3 slices of white bread,including crust, seasoning salt, lemon pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper, grated nutmeg, mace, dried thyme, dried marjoram, dried sage, onion powder, grated lemon , rind of, egg, prepared hog casing (can tsp get sausage casings, shape the sausage mixture into patties instead of link sausages) (optional)

rice flour (coarse , available packed as ground rice in the uk), low-fat milk (my mum would have used whole milk), caster sugar (to taste)

bread, buttered and crusts removed, sultanas, sugar, eggs, milk, sugar

butter (3 1/2 tbsp us), margarine (4 tbsp us), brown sugar (2/5 cup us), honey, oats (3 1/10 cup us), salt, banana, medium to large in size, chocolate (optional)

plain flour, plus extra for rolling, cold unsalted butter, roughly cubed, egg yolk, egg whisked with 1 tbsp milk, for the egg wash, ox kidney , about 400g/14oz, get it fresh from your butcher. pig s and lamb s kidneys aren tsp suitable as they on, trimmed british top rump beef, flat mixed mushrooms , unpeeled but wiped with a damp cloth, peanut oil or 3 tbsp vegetable oil, unsalted butter, onion, peeled and thickly chopped, plain flour , depending on how thick you like your gravy, off-the-boil water, marigold swiss vegetable bouillon granules, bay leaf

russet potatoes, enough canola oil to half fill your largest cooking pot or deep-fat fryer, all-purpose flour, kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, all-purpose flour, paprika, kosher salt, lager beer (the lighter and fizzier, the better), skinless, boneless large-flake white fish (we use wild alaskan cod because of its quality and sustainability), enough canola oil to half fill your largest cooking pot or deep-fat fryer, kosher salt, good-quality malt vinegar , for serving

dried split green peas, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, at room temperature, fish and chips, for serving

fresh minced carp (not frozen). remember: this is the traditional recipe. remove head and bones for the sauce., chopped onion, salt, sugar. ( yes! you read it right )., pepper ., eggs, spoons of matzoh meal . if you can tsp find it , use bread crumbs, head and bones of the carp , (or ask your butcher or fishmonger to do it for you )., sliced onion ., salt ., sliced carrots ., sugar ., black pepper ., water