Jeff's Recipes for Great British Eats! | Pub recipes for grub like sausage rolls, meat pasties, pork pies, and English curry.

Jeff's Recipes for Great British Eats!

Americans eat British food every day. Each time an American goes to McDonald's and orders a "Big Mac" n' fries, he or she is ordering up an Americanization of a couple of great British classics -- a "sandwich" and "chips!" Legend has it that the "sandwich" was invented by the 4th English Earl of Sandwich long ago after he discovered how handy it was to place a bit of meat between two slices of bread for a snack (to sustain him during his long gambling binges). "French fries" were being eaten in Great Britain way before we started gobbling them down here in America; they are known as "chips" over in the U.K. (Click here for a glossary of British food terms that differ from ours in the U.S.)

Well, you can't come from a family with classic British names like Murrell (English) and Owen (Welsh) and have absolutely no affinity for things British. I'm a second-generation Anglo-American, and I certainly do. So, to that end, I present some simple, traditional recipes which I have Americanized for my fellow Americans to try out and find out that British food totally ROCKS! (Please see the Home Page if you did not start out there - click the Crown image below and bookmark that link's URL as your start page for my recipes.)

Please note that all the pie, pasty and the sausage-roll recipes below can be divided into single-serving portions after baking and stored tightly wrapped in cling film (plastic wrap) for at least three months in the freezer. Just thaw and reheat for a couple of minutes in the microwave to serve at a later time!

~ ENJOY ~

Salisbury Steak (sorta' British)

Scotch Eggs

Welsh "Rabbit" (Rarebit - it has nothing to do with bunnies)

Irish Stew?

British Chicken in a Pot

Bacon & Onion Pie (oh, my!)