England

English / British recipes and links...

(NB: "British" does not necessarily mean "English"...and vice versa. England is only one part of Great Britain, which also includes Scotland and Wales, as well as smaller regions with distinct food specialties and traditions -- Devon and Cornwall, for example. Not many online sources specifically collect "English" recipes, possibly because in many cases it's no longer possible to trace the origins of specific dishes.)

Please note that some of the links below refer to sites that no longer exist or have moved where we can't find them. In these cases, we link to the Wayback Machine's archived copies of the sites.

While other English and British cookbooks are shown on this page, the one in the box to the left is probably our favorite. It can be hard to find, but it's worth the search. Check Abebooks.com for a used version.

At our own site -- A small collection of English recipes, including: Hot Chocolate Soufflées, Yorkshire Oatcakes, Toad-in-the-Hole, Cornish Pasties and some variations, Trifle, "Groaty Dick" Pudding, "Poor Knights of Windsor", Buttered Oranges, Steak and Kidney Pie, and a recipe for making your own clotted cream from scratch.

Elsewhere:

Helen Gaffney's original British Cooking Site...plainly one of those "labor of love" sites...
Helen now assists with the Great British Cookbook recipe site.
Recipes at DeliaOnline: one of the UK's most famous TV chefs and cookbook writers hosts 1000 online British recipes
Back at last: James Bond's Scrambled Egg Recipe
The Black Pudding Page ("Pudding" is here used in one of its oldest senses: the word meant "various kinds of sausages" long before it had anything to do with dessert.)
How to make black pudding from scratch
Old Scrote's English Recipes
Scone Recipes
Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, we've managed to find a copy of Sharon Curtis's English Recipes page.
Also courtesy of the Wayback machine: this link to Sharon's old Cornish recipe page. We're also archiving the recipes here in case they disappear from the Machine at some future date.

In the box below you'll see recommendations for the cookbooks of Delia Smith. She is probably the most widely known of the popularizers of the "new British cooking", though she does also venture into other cuisines. (She also probably single-handedly (re)introduced the cranberry to English cooking in the Winter Collection cookbook.)