English Food Shop

British Food Shop

Unit three

Unit three is dedicated to food products from the UK.

You name it we have got it or will get it for you.

Look into our freezer for some strange things. Crumpets, for example. 

My regular buying trips to the Costa Del Slough
make sure that we always have fresh books and foods.

Here is a history of British Cuisine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine

BASIC NEEDS

"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it; and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied; and it is all one."
M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

“Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.”
Robert Orben (1927--) American humorist.

“A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,        
Is what we chiefly need:        
Pepper and vinegar besides        
Are very good indeed--        
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,         
We can begin to feed!”

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
Alice Through the Looking-Glass

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
Frank Zappa

To help with your recipes

http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/londonfood2.htm

and

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/food.html

and

http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/desserts/brownies/05/rec0514.html

To help with your herbs visit this site

http://www.therepertoire.com/herbs/index.htm

or

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/germ/index.html?frames

To help with the cooking
 

 

CONVERSION CHARTS

Weight (lb, oz, - kg, gr.)

ounces nearest use

(oz) whole (gr) unit (gr)

1 28 25

2 57 50

3 85 75

4 113 100

5 142 150

6 170 175

7 198 200

8 227 225

9 255 250

10 (½ lb) 283 275

11 312 300

12 340 350

13 368 375

14 396 400

15 425 425

16 (1 lb) 454 450

17 482 475

18 510 500

19 539 550

20 567 575

Liquid (pt, - ml.)

pints nearest use

(pt) whole (ml) unit (ml)

¼ 142 150

½ 283 300

¾ 425 450

1 567 600

1¼ 851 900

1¾ 992 1000

Note ....

1 dl (Danish measure) = 10 cl or 100 ml

Oven temperatures

°C °F gas

mark

110 225 ¼

120 250 ½

140 275 1

150 300 2

160 325 3

180 350 4

190 375 5

200 400 6

220 425 7

230 450 8

240 475 9

Imperial American

solid

1 lb butter 2 cups

1 lb flour 4 cups

1 lb sugar 2 cups

1 lb icing sugar 3 cups

8 ozs rice 1 cup

liquid

¼ pint 2/3 cup

½ pint 1¼ cups

¾ pint 2 cups

1 pint 2½ cups

1½ pints 3¾ cups

2 pints 5 cups

an imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces

an American pint is 16 fluid ounces

NOTE....... use only one measuring system - i.e. metric or imperial -

as the systems are not interchangeable

Spoons

British = American = Australian

1 teaspoon (5 ml) 1 teaspoon (5 ml) 1 teaspoon (5 ml)

1 tablespoon (17.7 ml) 1 tablespoon (14.2 ml) 1 tablespoon (20 ml)

2 tablespoons 3 tablespoons 2 tablespoons

3½ tablespoons 5 tablespoons 3 tablespoons

4 tablespoons 5 tablespoons 3½ tablespoons