The traditional English dishes Apple Pie, Cornish Pasty, Cottage pie, Full English Breakfast, Sponge Cake, Sunday Roast.  

Apple Pie The first recipes for apple pie arisen since the time of Chaucer, one with 1,381 years gave the ingredients of good apples, good spices, figs, raisins and pears. Often, the coloring of the filling also used saffron. In English-speaking countries apple pie has for years been a very popular dessert that tastes both hot and cold, alone or with ice cream, whipped cream or custard topping traditional English.

Cornish Pasty Baked pie, made from a dough of wheat flour or wheat-rye and filling - potatoes, beef and vegetables: carrots, parsnips and swedes. Cornish dumplings history dates back to the eighteenth century, when Cornwall was famous for its tin mining. Cornish przyrządzały wives to their husbands meal of bread dough, and roll them in the shape of the pie and decorate initials. This does not mean that dumped everything inside - in the middle there is a specific order. Potatoes on the side, then vegetables - carrots, swedes, and in the middle of a piece of beef. During lunch miners delicacy in the ovens heat up and then ate only a means.

Cottage Pie Baked meat and vegetable dish, consisting of two layers - top, with mashed potatoes and bottom, which casserole with ground beef, onion, other vegetables and spices. Somewhat similar to the stew, but the essence is precisely the layer of potatoes with parched skin. Meat casseroles have long been in England a way of utilization of surplus meat. There were always baked in the characteristic shape of a truncated cone-shaped, hence the name Old English Coffyn (coffin)

Full English Breakfast Traditional meal (breakfast) served warm in the countries of the British Isles. I used daily in most British homes currently served mainly in hotels, guesthouses and B & B. English Breakfast is a result of famine in ancient England. Farmers getting up in the morning to work in the field had the option of eating usually only one hot and hearty meal a day. The breakfast rich in fat and calories was supposed to be a source of energy until the evening, when he went home to eat an evening meal.

Sponge Cake Type of light cake made with eggs with a little flour and sugar - no added fat. In some formulations part of the biscuit wheat flour is replaced with potato flour. The additive reduces the amount of gluten in the dough, which makes it has a delicate structure. Biscuit dough can be prepared using the "hot" or "cold". In the first of these, the mass composed of eggs and sugar compacted by heating it on hand. The increased temperature of the egg (which did not exceed 40 degrees Celsius), the image contained in the sugar dissolved and the mass becomes thinner. This enables injecting a larger amount of air is a factor in the leavening the dough.

Sunday Roast British dish traditionally served on Sundays (usually in the early afternoon for lunch), consisting of roast meat and potatoes, along with additives such as Yorkshire pudding, vegetables and sauce. Sunday roast outside the UK is also widespread in Ireland and Commonwealth countries, m.in .: New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and Canada, and formerly was also a popular dish in New England (north-eastern United States).

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