United Kingdom
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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Dandelion and Burdock
A dark, faintly medicinal soft drink flavoured with dandelion and burdock root, descended from a fermented medieval cordial.
England, United Kingdom
Darnibole Wine
Darnibole Wine is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Deep-Fried Mars Bar
A chocolate bar chilled, dipped in fish-batter and dropped in the chip shop fryer until the inside is molten.
England, United Kingdom
Devonshire split
Devonshire split is a sweet bread from Devon, rooted in local cooking tradition.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Digestive Biscuit
A coarse, semi-sweet wholemeal biscuit, sold plain or half-coated in milk or dark chocolate.
England, United Kingdom
Dorset knob
Dorset knob is a bread or flatbread from Dorset, rooted in local cooking tradition.
England, United Kingdom
Double Gloucester
A hard, annatto-coloured cheese from Gloucestershire with a nutty, buttery, citrusy flavour and a firm, crumbly texture.
England, United Kingdom
Dovedale Cheese
Dovedale Cheese is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.
England, United Kingdom
Dressed Crab
Brown and white crab meat picked out, seasoned and returned to the cleaned shell in two banks, served cold with bread.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Drop Scone
A small, thick Scotch pancake made by dropping batter onto a hot griddle, served with butter, jam or golden syrup.
Northern Ireland, Canada
Dulse
Duileasc
An Irish edible red seaweed, a coastal and ancient snack
Scotland, United Kingdom
Dundee Cake
A light fruit cake with sultanas, currants and orange peel, ringed on top with concentric circles of blanched almonds.
United Kingdom
Ecclefechan Butter Tart
Ecclefechan butter tart is a Scottish pastry filled with butter, brown sugar, eggs, and dried fruit.
England, United Kingdom
Eccles Cake
A flat round of flaky pastry packed with buttery spiced currants, slashed on top and baked with a sugar crust.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh Fog
Edinburgh Fog folds whipped double cream with crushed ratafia or macaroon biscuits, Drambuie or whisky, and toasted almonds.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh Rock
Edinburgh Rock is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.
United Kingdom
Egg Banjo
A British snack of a fried egg in a buttered bread roll, eaten with one hand, with the yolk running down the eater's front like a banjo string.
England, United Kingdom
Eggy Bread
The British version of French toast, made by soaking bread in egg, milk and sugar, pan-frying in butter and serving with jam or cinnamon sugar.
United Kingdom
Elderflower Cordial
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Elderflower heads steeped with sugar, lemon and citric acid to a syrup, diluted with still or sparkling water.
England, United Kingdom
English Muffin
A small, round, flat yeasted bread baked on a griddle, split with a fork and toasted, served buttered for breakfast or as the base for eggs Benedict.
England, United Kingdom
English Regional Wine
English Regional Wine is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.
England, United Kingdom
English Wine
Bottle-fermented sparkling wine from chalk downland vineyards in the south, made from the same three grapes as champagne.
London, United Kingdom
Espresso Martini
An Espresso Martini shakes vodka, fresh espresso, and coffee liqueur into a drink capped by persistent crema.
England, United Kingdom
Eton Mess
Crushed meringue, whipped cream and strawberries stirred together so the meringue partly dissolves.
Wales, United Kingdom
Faggots
Balls of minced pork liver, heart and belly bound with breadcrumbs and onion, wrapped in caul fat and baked in gravy.
England, United Kingdom
Fal Oyster
Fal Oyster is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.
England, United Kingdom
Fat Rascal
Fat Rascal is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.
England, United Kingdom
Fenland Celery
Fenland Celery is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.
England, United Kingdom
Fidget pie
Fidget pie is a pie from Shropshire, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-pite.
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Fifteens
Fifteens are an Ulster no-bake traybake of crushed biscuits, marshmallows, glacé cherries, and condensed milk.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Finnan Haddie
Finnan Haddie is cold-smoked haddock from Findon, traditionally smoked over wood and served cooked or poached.
Gibraltar, United Kingdom
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.
England, United Kingdom
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked haddock and often prawns and egg in a béchamel, under a mashed potato crust baked until browned.
United Kingdom
Flapjack
Rolled oats bound with butter, golden syrup and brown sugar, baked in a tray and cut into bars while warm.
England, United Kingdom
Full English Breakfast
A fried plate of bacon, sausage, egg, black pudding, grilled tomato, mushrooms and baked beans, with fried bread or toast and a mug of tea.