Top 10 English recipes on SBS Food

With the Queen's birthday on the horizon, we've compiled our top English recipes so you can prepare a spread that's worthy of royalty. The English are very good at combining cheap, simple ingredients to maximise flavours and make a little go a long way, but sophisticated flavours are also very much part of this hearty cuisine.

With the Queen's birthday on the horizon, we've compiled our top English recipes so you can prepare a spread that's worthy of royalty. The English are very good at combining cheap, simple ingredients to maximise flavours and make a little go a long way, but sophisticated flavours are also very much part of this hearty cuisine.

"Comfort food" is much loved, and puddings are a highlight. No meal is complete without dessert, often a bread and butter pudding is all it takes. It’s a delicious winter warmer with the added virtue of being cheap to make – and, again, in this waste-not-want-not culture, it’s a handy use of stale bread. Chilled berry puddings, like the vibrant summer pudding, are a variation on a similar theme – again relying on stale bread to soak up the tart and sweet flavours of the fresh berry juices and coulis. Thrifty and delicious? God bless the English!

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