aubergine eggplant
back bacon similar
to Canadian bacon
bake blind bake a
pastry case empty, by covering with wax paper
and weighing down with beans
baron of beef two
sirloins in one roast
bap hamburger bun
beetroot beet
biscuit cookie or
cracker (sweet biscuit or
savoury biscuit)
boiled sweet hard
candy
brill something like
a small turbot
broad bean fava bean
brown bread wholemeal
bread
brown stock beef stock
bully beef corned
beef
candyfloss cotton
candy
caster sugar finely
granulated sugar (not as powdery as confectioner's
sugar)
Channel Island milk
milk that's almost as thick as light
cream
chicory endive
chipolata small pork
sausage
chips french fries
chocolate vermicelli
chocolate sprinkles
chump chop a type
of lamb chop
cider hard cider
clingfilm plastic
wrap
coal fish / coley
black cod
coffee sugar sugar
in large brightly-coloured crystals
coriander leaves cilantro
corn almost any grain
(see maize and sweetcorn)
corned beef canned
pressed ham (see salt beef)
cornflour cornstarch
cos lettuce romaine
courgette zucchini
crisps potato chips
crumpet something
a bit like an English muffin ("English muffins"
do not exist in England)
custard custard sauce,
or sometimes baked custard
cutlet chop
demerara sugar light
brown cane sugar
Devonshire cream a
particular type of clotted cream
digestive biscuits
something like Graham crackers
double cream heavy
cream
doughnut jelly doughnut
endive chicory
faggot meatball
fairy cake cupcake
fillet steak tenderloin
steak
fish fingers fish
sticks
French beans string
beans
gammon large, thick,
round piece of ham
garibaldi hard rectangular
currant cookie
ginger nut ginger
snap
golden syrup something
like corn syrup
greaseproof paper
wax paper
green pepper bell
pepper
icing frosting
icing sugar powdered
(confectioners') sugar
jacket potato baked
potato
liquor (in some contexts,
notably in eel-and-pie shops) parsley sauce
liver sausage liverwurst
maize corn
marrow squash that
looks like a giant zucchini
mince ground beef/hamburger
mincemeat mince pie
filling (dried fruit, peel, brandy, etc;
very occasionally contains meat)
mixed spice a mixture
of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, coriander
and cloves
offal liver, kidneys,
tongue, tripe and any other animal organs
perry hard cider made
from pears instead of apples
plum duff plum pudding
polony bologna
porridge cooked oatmeal
prawn small shrimp
ring doughnut doughnut
rump steak sirloin
salt beef corned beef
silverside top round
single cream light
cream
sirloin porterhouse
steak
sherbet powdered candy
slice bar cookie
sponge finger ladyfinger
squash juice drink
sugar crystals see
coffee sugar
sultana white raisin
sweetcorn whole-kernel
corn
swede yellow turnip
tart pie
toffee taffy
treacle similar to
molasses
whipping cream halfway
between light and heavy cream
white stock chicken
or fish stock
whitebait small silvery
fish, usually deep-fried whole
