Saint Helena

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Bangers and Mash

Pork sausages, mashed potato and a pool of onion gravy, the standard pub plate.

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Boiled Pudding

Fruit Duff

A traditional Saint Helena steamed pudding of flour, butter, brown sugar, chopped dates, baking powder, mixed spice, vanilla, and eggs; the mixture is wrapped in a cloth and boiled for several hours, then sliced and served with hot custard.

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Bread 'n Dance

Bread ’n Dance is a Saint Helenian sandwich filled with a thick savoury tomato paste of tomato, onion, bacon, chilli, sugar, parsley, and egg; it is named for community dances and weddings where it was served.

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Bread and Butter Pudding

Buttered bread layered with sultanas, soaked in an egg custard and baked until the top corners crisp and the middle sets.

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Builder's Tea

Strong black tea brewed hard in a mug with a splash of milk and often two sugars, drunk at every hour of the day.

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Bury Black Pudding

Pig's blood, oatmeal or barley and diced back fat packed into a casing, boiled, then sliced and fried until the edges crisp.

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Coconut Fingers

Long finger-shaped Madeira sponge cakes dipped in pink or green icing and rolled in desiccated coconut; a traditional Saint Helena celebration cake for weddings, christenings, birthdays, and St Helena Day.

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Cornish Pasty

A crimped half-moon of shortcrust filled raw with beef skirt, swede, potato and onion, then baked so the filling cooks in its own steam.

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Cottage Pie

Minced beef in gravy under a mashed potato crust, baked until the surface is golden and the edges bubble.

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Curry Puffs

Saint Helena curry puffs are shortcrust pastry parcels filled with curried corned beef, onion, parsley, and egg, a local party food adapted from the wider curry-puff tradition.

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Custard

A pouring sauce of milk, sugar and either egg yolk or cornflour powder, served hot over almost every British pudding.

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Drop Scone

A small, thick Scotch pancake made by dropping batter onto a hot griddle, served with butter, jam or golden syrup.

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Fish and Chips

Battered white fish — cod, haddock or plaice — deep-fried to order with thick-cut chips, salt and malt vinegar, wrapped in paper.

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Ginger Beer

A cloudy, fiery ginger drink originally fermented with a ginger beer plant, now mostly brewed and carbonated.

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Hertzoggies

Jam tarts with a shortcrust pastry base filled with apricot or tamarind jam and topped with coconut meringue; a South African-inspired treat popular at Saint Helena parties and tea time.

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Plo

A one-pot curried rice dish with meat or fish, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, pumpkin, tomato, curry powder, tomato ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce; the quintessential Saint Helena dish, often served at communal gatherings and Sunday lunch.

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Pumpkin Fritters

Fratters

Fried batter made from boiled and mashed pumpkin, sugar, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, mixed spice, egg, and dried fruit; a quick Saint Helena snack or dessert known locally as 'Fratters'.

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Pumpkin Pudding

A baked Saint Helena dessert of cooked pumpkin or butternut squash, flour, sugar, butter, mixed dried fruit, egg, baking powder, nutmeg, and mixed spice; cut into squares and served hot or cold with tea or milk on Sunday afternoons.

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Rice and Peas

Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans or gungo peas, thyme, escallion and a whole scotch bonnet, served with every Sunday dinner.

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Saint Helena Black Pudding

A traditional Saint Helena sausage made from pig or calf intestines stuffed with cooked rice, blood, onion, bacon, parsley, mixed spice, thyme, and habanero chilli, then boiled and sliced.

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Saint Helena Fish Cakes

Fresh tuna or other local fish shredded and mixed with mashed potato, onion, bacon, chilli, parsley, thyme, and egg, formed into patties and shallow-fried until golden; a spicy everyday staple that 'must have bite'.

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Saint Helena Ginger Beer

Traditional home-made ginger beer fermented with fresh root ginger, lemons, sugar, cream of tartar, dried yeast, water, and raisins; lightly sparkling and mildly alcoholic, it is a refreshing sweet, smooth ginger drink on Saint Helena.

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Sausage Roll

Seasoned sausage meat rolled in puff pastry, baked in a long strip and cut into portions, eaten hot from a bakery counter or cold at a party.

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Shepherd's Pie

Minced lamb cooked down with onion, carrot and stock, topped with mashed potato and baked until the peaks brown.

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Sunday Roast

A joint of beef, lamb, pork or chicken roasted and carved, served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, stuffing and a jug of meat gravy.