Food the Brits have that America doesn't

Scotch Pie

Easy & Authentic Scotch Pie Recipe

 

Hufsie

http://vagabondbaker.com/2015/08/04/hufsie-cake-a-fruity-shetland-bake/

 

Saucermeat

Shetland Saucermeat

 

No bananas, a spicy fruit cake/loaf.

 

Nope. Lamb too. Follow the link ..

 

This is not for the weak stomached!

Guga - salted, dried gannet.

I have never tried it, nor will I!

Guga - Scottish Food Guide

 

Crappit Heid

Traditionally fish heads stuffed with oat meal and fish liver. Yuuuuuk lol.

A history of Crappit Heid, including a recipe for making your own - Scotsman Food and Drink

 

OMG I wish I hadn't looked. lol

 

Don’t leave Ireland without trying…
Soda bread

 

My mother in law said she ate this as a child at her Hebridean grandparents. Almost certainly a poverty dish. It was cod heads stuffed. She said I’d was good and there was a lot of meat on a cod's head. I'll still give it a miss.

 

Me too. I do love the old recipes the best though. xxx

 

Skirlie

Oatmeal fried in animal fat. For sophistication, onions can be added. In truth, another poverty food from hard times.

 

Grouse. Remember to spit out the shotgun pellets.

 

Deep fried Mars Bar. The pinnacle of Scottish haute cuisine.

 

Cairgein Dessert made from milk and seaweed. Very pleasant, actually

https://www.truehighlands.com/cairgein-seaweed-pudding-by-christy-ann-skivington/

 

And at the other end of the UK, the Cornish have Stargazy pie:



Stargazy pie - Wikipedia

 

Rag Pudding. another Lancashire concoption

Rag pudding or rag pie is a traditional English delicacy made by cooking a combination of ground meat and onions in a suet pastry. The whole concoction is cooked in cotton or muslin rags, hence the name.

 

Oh that looks like good wholesome winter lockdown food! I must try making that.

 

Your Welcome to it

 

Daughter and I, the cooks in the house, have just discussed it and we wouldn’t use suet. Make it a bit healthier, if less traditional.