Food the Brits have that America doesn't

Nor me. I think it was in WW2

 

Candy darlin' - beef dripping doesn't come in jars, you scrape it out of the roasting tin you had previously cooked the beef joint !!!

 

I buy my dripping in the same container as margarine comes in. When I was last in the UK dripping was sold in foil wrapped blocks.

 

Yeah, but that's the processed version which tastes nothing like 'proper' dripping with the meat jelly too !!!

 

I use it to panfry and it works good. I used to make my own but now the butchers in town send back fat trimmings to the meatworks.

 

This so true.

 

I remember beef dripping sarnies heavily sprinkled with pepper - delicious.

As an infant I recall my Mother used to give me a slice of lard to eat (raw).

I also remember that due to sweet rationing, my mother used to give me a paper bag with 2 0z of currants or raisins to eat instead of sweets.

 

Interesting.
Never tried dripping.

 

You haven't lived Candy darlin' !!! Dripping done properly with the meat jelly too is delicious !!!

 

I will stick with

 

we definitely have bread pudding and mince pies here, think the bread pudding is more common tho since a lot of restaurantes serve it, mince pies i've only seen in a couple stores locally so maybe they're not as much of a thing in the northwest, dunnow.

we have weetabix too (made in canada) though they're harder to find, usually in health food or specialty foods sections of most supermarkets and marked way way way up though my local Winco Foods do stock them with the regular cereals, but they also carry PG tips in the breakfast aisle, with all the other big teas like twinings and tetley (but not taylors of harrogate, for some reason) and the usual american excuse-for-tea crap brands. they're probably the only store i've seen locally outside of Cost plus that carry PG

 

Sagewynd, I have a recipe for a (sweet) mincemeat fruit loaf - like a fruit cake bbut shaped like a large loaf of bread.

 

I'm curious about salad dressing i only see mayo used on salad--- what about flavored dressings ?? (however this brand is not a "good" example-- just a picture i found with several types)

 

We have many types

 

Ok, its bugged me for long time

 

I will post some tomorrow.
I am tired now.

 

okay, maybe one of you might know. a couple months ago i got a can of Bird's vanilla custard mix; followed the directions for microwave prep and all it came out like was just warm vanilla-flavored milk, like i had taken a glass of milk and put some vanilla drink mix into. it tasted good but was nothing like any cooked (not baked) custards i've ever had, directions said can use something called "semi-skimmed" milk; is that what you guys call 1% in the UK? that's what i used since that's all i had. is Bird's supposed to be ultra-runny like that or did i fuck it up somehow?

it calls for 1 pint (2 cups) (16 fluid ounces) milk total per 2 tablespoons of pudding mix + 1 or 2T of sugar, that sure seems like an awful lot of milk for so little powder innit? or did i just perhaps get a bum can with the wrong amount of thickening stuff in it?