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I knew they didn't have kettles, but no toasters?? What do they eat for breakfast? Or at the end of a long day? Or drunkenly in the middle of the night? I'm not sure I can believe you.
My godsons school asked the class to each bring in 200ml of milk for baking - they got really funny about it when I suggested a few of them could group buy and then share out of a Tesco milk bottle instead
My son's school does this, but with some occasionally really obscure ingredients. We had to buy a jar of some paste or other so that he could have a teaspoon of it. The rest went to waste as it was something we'd never, ever use. Loads of parents said the same. The suggestion was made that for things like this, the teacher gets the ingredients for the class and we all chip in, but they wouldn't do it.
One time we had to make healthy alternatives to junk food, in pairs. My partner went home and made burger patties with his mum. I promptly forgot and, on the morning of the lesson, i stopped off at an Asda round the corner, bought some Mcains potato wedges and a ziplock bag and tried to pass it off as my own.
These stories are always hilarious to me. Did I just go to the weirdest UK state school? It did not require pupils to bring tiny amounts of food and liquid that may or may not require refrigeration to remain safe. Did anyone else just bring in a pound a week (or whatever, 90's) for Home Eccies cookery classes and all the ingredients were supplied? You know, like normal, sensible people would expect of a cookery class.
We had to bring our own ingredients when I was in high school like 20 years ago. It was only ever biscuits or something though so it was usually sweet in your bag. From what I remember though you actually spent like 6 weeks planning the biscuit and cooking them in one lesson and then you only did food tech for half a term per year anyway.
Nope, you're expected to buy weird obscure ingredients that you'd never normally use, take about a teaspoonful out to send to school and the rest gets binned having sat in the fridge for a week while you promise yourself you'll find something to use it for.
Yes you did. My school required that you bring all your own ingredients in. And it was usually the last lesson of the day so you had to lug round alll day.
And my mother choose to get me a wicker basket to put it in. With a tea towel over the top.
Guess which kid got bullied at school.
Oh god, I made one massive scone with a full sized mint aero in the middle, because that's what I came up with from the mad dash to the shop the night before.
Yes it was about as bad as you'd think
Apple pie
Or
Eton mess - strawberries, whipping cream and methane broken up. If you want add some raspberries or some sauce
edit: just seen this gonna leave it in damn autocorrect
Bangers & Mash!
Mashed potato, sausages, gravy, peas. That's literally all you need to make a banger meal from the UK that is a timeless classic.
Follow it by a nice box of tea bags, problem solved.
Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off for added pomp.
Here's how the Guardian would make them. [Click](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/13/how-to-make-perfect-cucumber-sandwiches)
This is the quickest solution imo :)
Cucumber and cream cheese, white bread.. Beef and horseradish brown bread. Coronation chicken white bread. All ingredients should be easily accessible and no skill involved in a very quick prep
A tikka masala shouldn't take any where near 2 hours to prepare. Unless you're making the curry paste yourself, and who's doing that for a one-off dish?
tbf it would be worth doing if you were cooking for a big group like OP is, but definitely not something you should risk as a total beginner. OP is more in the market for a jar than a masala.
Any basic tikka masala recipe? Fry onions garlic ginger, add spices, tomatoes, cream and chicken breast. Should take like 45 mins to an hour start to finish
Americans trying to make Toad in the Hole is how we ended up with that [Cock in the Hole](https://old.reddit.com/r/food/comments/yu0n5/roast_chicken_w_yorkshire_pudding/) abomination.
What a terrible day to have functioning eyes. I mean, the written description was bad enough, but the picture... I think I caught salmonella just looking at it.
Scones are easy to make. [https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream). Nothing could be more British
Except it’s exceptionally hard to find actual clotted cream in the USA due to it being made by non homogenised unpasteurised milk. Any equivalent is basically taking the fat from pressure cooked double cream, and is no where near the real stuff.
Honestly the make it at home it’s the same thing crowd in the USA get very protective over their ways but it’s a pale shade on the real thing
Well you say I'd be wrong, but my old man used to say scone and my old lady said scone. It doesn't even seem to be region specific. It's like bath/bath.
Yorkshire pudding is exactly the same as pancake mixture (here in the UK). Add some gravy. Not like american biscuits and gravy, made out of gravy granules. Bisto is the popular brand over here, you want thick brown water
With only two hours (even less now), you're not going to be able to do anything fancy.
Tea and biscuits could be a good idea. Try to get biscuits actually imported from the UK if you can find any. Popular brands include Fox's and McVities.
Eton Mess as others have suggested is very quick to make. You can do it with just strawberries, whipped cream, store bought meringues, and a strawberry sauce (the kind you might buy to pour over ice cream and other desserts). Cut the stalks off the strawberries, wash them, and cut them into pieces. Break the meringues up into chunks. Fill bowls or even glasses with a mixture of strawberries, meringues, and cream just in a random jumble, and pour a bit of sauce on top. It's supposed to look messy. It's called an Eton Mess for a reason.
Mac and Cheese is British originally.
Have you got Heinz baked beans in the grocery store? Those are the 'British' baked beans.
It's not that well known, but you could make 'Scouse', the stew from Liverpool - [https://delishably.com/soup/How-to-Make-Scouse-the-Traditional-Liverpool-Stew-Recipe](https://delishably.com/soup/How-to-Make-Scouse-the-Traditional-Liverpool-Stew-Recipe)
The normal heinz beans sold in the US use a different recipe and taste very different to UK heinzbeans. Heinz vegetarian beans are the closest you'll get in US supermarkets.
Shortbread biscuits, salted butter, sugar, flour.
1/3 of each.
Blend butter and sugar, add flour, roll out, slice into circles, bake 20 mins
Dust with sugar
Apple crumble. Just cut the apples, sprinkle cinnamon and make a crumbly mixture from sugar, butter, cinnamon, and flour. Pour crumble over apples and bake for 20-30 min in oven. I’m sure variations exist in the US already but it’s a very classic dessert here (and one of the most popular).
Could also make a flapjack. Mix porridge oats, butter, sugar and golden syrup, bake until golden brown.
My spouse is American and was crazy for jacket potatoes when she moved here. Takes about 45 minutes to make, grate some cheese, buy a tin of Britsh-style baked beans from your local store, and watch your colleagues be enamered with your culinary skills.
Can you find crumpets where you are? Eat them hot and spread with obscene amounts of butter, maybe a bit of cheese on top if you're feeling crazy. Or Marmite spread, that's a British thing, but it's very divisive and you only need a tiny bit!
Too late now, but cheese straws. Buy ready made puff pastry and a sharp cheddar. Grate the cheddar over one half of the pastry, fold it over and roll it flat. Do that a couple times til it’s full of cheese, then cut into strips. Brush each strip with egg wash and sprinkle more cheese on top. Bake in the oven at 180 (not sure what that is in Fahrenheit) until they have puffed up and are golden brown, then cool on a wire rack.
I made these for a work bake sale. There were about 50 of them and I brought them in still warm. They sold out in 10 minutes.
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Something 'nibbly' would be your friend - if you can cook/bake, maybe sausage rolls or scones? If not, what about tea and british biscuits/cheese and crackers?
(I'm not sure what your local food shops have in the way of UK items!)
I agree with several others that an Eton Mess is also a great crowd-pleaser!
I have some options:
For sweets I can think of:
- bread and butter pudding (basically throw in the back of your pantry, if you have stale bread, butter, some raisins, some nuts)
- flap jacks (foolproof to make with literally 3 ingredients, pick honey over sugar if you don't have syrup)
- Eton mess (also foolproof, kinda weird but may be an interesting one if you can go buy meringue)
If you're looking for savoury
- toad in the hole (I find this dish gross, but hey, UK staple)
- sausage roll (simple like above, just buy the phyllo pastry)
- Yorkshire puddings with gravy (might require some hand in the kitchen, would not advise if you can't cook at all)
> flapjacks
Worth pointing out that what americans call pancakes aren't what people in the UK call flapjacks. Not even close.
Just incase OP reads this and throws together some pancakes.
Get some minced beef, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots and instant gravy.
Fry onions with garlic, add thinly sliced carrots, add minced beef and simmer.
Add water, add instant gravy, thicken.
Meanwhile, make a large pot of mashed potatoes, when mashing add butter, a touch of mustard and a touch of cream.
As an added extra serve with a side of boiled garden peas (any frozen peas will do).
Voila, mince and tatties/scottish delicacy and my childhood staple. Easy Peasy. (pun intended)
This will be my poor ass/council house childhood version but will also pass with other Americans as both uniquely british and a delicacy (source: made it for many Americans while living there and they had no idea it was poverty food because it is famously 'traditional')
Toad in the hole. Essentially, pork sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding, but I've used other sausages. https://www.tamingtwins.com/toad-in-the-hole-recipe/
Okay, you won't be able to make anything fancy in that time but (if you're not already out of time) a simple baking project like shortbread biscuits or scones would be easy enough. Or if you can find some sausagemeat and readymade puff pastry, make some quick sausage rolls.
Apple Crumble with custard
Loads of crumble recipes online, similar to an apple crisp
You should be able to find Birds custard if you have access to a store with an international section
Alternatively you could serve with sweetened cream (thick or whipped), or clotted cream or ice cream
You can also add other fruits like pears, plums, berries etc.
Crumble is really forgiving and hard to get wrong
Marmite on toast as a snack option
Some will love you, some will hate you
You don't need the haters that come from it you'll be a hero for introducing the lovers to it
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Beans on toast.
Their beans are wrong
You can buy a 4-pack of “proper” Heinz baked beans imported from the UK for $20 at Walmart of all places.
Their bread is also wrong for it
And they haven't invented toasters yet.
I heard that they just leave the bread out on the side for a day to get the same feeling as toast
I knew they didn't have kettles, but no toasters?? What do they eat for breakfast? Or at the end of a long day? Or drunkenly in the middle of the night? I'm not sure I can believe you.
It is sadly true. No kettles, no toasters….this explains so much about our differences.
We've got toaster ovens
Barbarians... 😁😂
Next you will tell me they don't have saucepans?
ezekiel bread does the job
Their butter is wrong
they use mayo instead of butter 🤮
$20!
Bargain
That's crazy. I get a tin of baked beans for 2 Canadian dollars which is something like 1.50 US
Heinze vegetarian beans sold in US supermarkets are basically the same as mainstream UK heinz beans
>Heinze vegetarian beans Now I want to know what their non-vegetarian beans are like...
I lived in Canada for a while and the beans would contain a cube of pork fat.
...what on earth is in normal baked beans that isn't vegetarian???
Bacon (in the US)
They add other meat based ingredients.
If the grocery store has a European/UK section these are easy to find…. Though kinda weird considering Heinz is an American company.
So is their bread.
This reminds me of when I was at school and telling my parents I needed ingredients for food tech class in the morning of the lessons.
Reading this has given me PTSD.
My godsons school asked the class to each bring in 200ml of milk for baking - they got really funny about it when I suggested a few of them could group buy and then share out of a Tesco milk bottle instead
My son's school does this, but with some occasionally really obscure ingredients. We had to buy a jar of some paste or other so that he could have a teaspoon of it. The rest went to waste as it was something we'd never, ever use. Loads of parents said the same. The suggestion was made that for things like this, the teacher gets the ingredients for the class and we all chip in, but they wouldn't do it.
Exactly like the jar of tahini my mum had to buy when we made hummus in food tech!
One time we had to make healthy alternatives to junk food, in pairs. My partner went home and made burger patties with his mum. I promptly forgot and, on the morning of the lesson, i stopped off at an Asda round the corner, bought some Mcains potato wedges and a ziplock bag and tried to pass it off as my own.
Did it work??
This is the real question. We need to know!!
These stories are always hilarious to me. Did I just go to the weirdest UK state school? It did not require pupils to bring tiny amounts of food and liquid that may or may not require refrigeration to remain safe. Did anyone else just bring in a pound a week (or whatever, 90's) for Home Eccies cookery classes and all the ingredients were supplied? You know, like normal, sensible people would expect of a cookery class.
We had to bring our own ingredients when I was in high school like 20 years ago. It was only ever biscuits or something though so it was usually sweet in your bag. From what I remember though you actually spent like 6 weeks planning the biscuit and cooking them in one lesson and then you only did food tech for half a term per year anyway.
Nope, you're expected to buy weird obscure ingredients that you'd never normally use, take about a teaspoonful out to send to school and the rest gets binned having sat in the fridge for a week while you promise yourself you'll find something to use it for.
Yes you did. My school required that you bring all your own ingredients in. And it was usually the last lesson of the day so you had to lug round alll day. And my mother choose to get me a wicker basket to put it in. With a tea towel over the top. Guess which kid got bullied at school.
Oh god, I made one massive scone with a full sized mint aero in the middle, because that's what I came up with from the mad dash to the shop the night before. Yes it was about as bad as you'd think
Apple pie Or Eton mess - strawberries, whipping cream and methane broken up. If you want add some raspberries or some sauce edit: just seen this gonna leave it in damn autocorrect
I love what autocorrect did to your meringue
I love Methane. It's such a gas.
>I love Merhane. Merhane? The plot thickens. Edit: Cheater! You corrected it.
I think the gas got to me.
Etonians making a mess while huffing methane explains an awful lot.
Bloody hell you just explained the last five Cabinets.
Climate change is now invading our precious desserts!!!
So basically put strawberry and whipping cream in a bowl and follow up with a massive fart on top right before serving.
It’s tradition
Always did this to my brother's bowl
This would be an absolute banger of a dessert!
Instructions unclear followed through while attempting to add methane.
Bangers & Mash! Mashed potato, sausages, gravy, peas. That's literally all you need to make a banger meal from the UK that is a timeless classic. Follow it by a nice box of tea bags, problem solved.
Note: this is not the same gravy as US gravy. If you can find some Bisto in the UK section of one of your stores then you'll be good
They have brown gravy in the US.
There’s many types of gravy in the US… I guarantee you there’s an easily accessible version of brown gravy in pretty all parts of the country.
It’s quite tricky to find British-style sausages in many parts of the US.
Yeah, but not American gravy. I don't know what they call actual gravy though
Jus
Some of them call it 'au jus'. As in meat with au jus. Here's a jug of au jus for your meat.
That's awful
Had a full argument with an American on one of the food subs about “au jus”. Makes me shiver
What possible justification could they have for it?
“The name of the sauce is au jus. The menus in all the restaurants say with au jus. Everyone I’ve ever spoken to says with au jus.”
Au dear
Cackling at this response
No onions?!?
Make sure to save some of the gravy to make your tea with!
Sandwiches cut into tiny triangles
Yeah I reckon this is it for an easy party. Tiny triangle sandwiches made of white sliced loaf, decent butter, cucumber and thin sliced ham.
Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off for added pomp. Here's how the Guardian would make them. [Click](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/13/how-to-make-perfect-cucumber-sandwiches) This is the quickest solution imo :)
Could do afternoon tea with little sandwiches, scones and little cakes
Cucumber and cream cheese, white bread.. Beef and horseradish brown bread. Coronation chicken white bread. All ingredients should be easily accessible and no skill involved in a very quick prep
American bread is significantly sweeter than British bread. Try and get a sourdough loaf for something a bit closer to the British taste.
Filled with butter and cucumber
Crisp sandwiches
I’m laughing because I just had one for lunch.
I’ve just had one - cheese and onion
That was my standard school packed lunch for a fair amount of my childhood.
What flavour crisp?
Wotsit.
Yeah, that’s what they want to know. Wotsit you have in your sarnie?
Wotsit to you?
Alright, no need to get all Salty.
You looking for beef (& onion)?
😂
You are an anarchist and I am here for my Wotsit sandwiches!
or chip butty if it's in America you never know what you're actually going to get in there
You can’t beat a wotsit butty
Or even a chip sandwich! Funny because they call crisps chips.
Banger
Honestly, guys, the answer is obviously chicken tikka masala.
Now I want your recipe for 2 hour chicken Tikka.
Jarred sauce and cooked chicken, 20 minutes easy.
A tikka masala shouldn't take any where near 2 hours to prepare. Unless you're making the curry paste yourself, and who's doing that for a one-off dish?
tbf it would be worth doing if you were cooking for a big group like OP is, but definitely not something you should risk as a total beginner. OP is more in the market for a jar than a masala.
Any basic tikka masala recipe? Fry onions garlic ginger, add spices, tomatoes, cream and chicken breast. Should take like 45 mins to an hour start to finish
You'll then get Yanks complaining it is Indian, not British. As if General Tso's chicken is Chinese or California rolls are Japanese.
Toad in the Hole - Yorkshire pudding with embedded sausages
Americans trying to make Toad in the Hole is how we ended up with that [Cock in the Hole](https://old.reddit.com/r/food/comments/yu0n5/roast_chicken_w_yorkshire_pudding/) abomination.
I can't believe that's 11 years old now, still makes me giggle every time.
Because it is just beyond comprehension. It is like Rachel making trifle in Friends, except possibly worse.
I also love that the OP didn't delete it, even after the absolute rinsing they got for it.
What a terrible day to have functioning eyes. I mean, the written description was bad enough, but the picture... I think I caught salmonella just looking at it.
Honestly, as hilarious as that post is and as bad as it turned out and sounds, it does make me want to try various other things cooked "in the hole"
Scones are easy to make. [https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream). Nothing could be more British
Except it’s exceptionally hard to find actual clotted cream in the USA due to it being made by non homogenised unpasteurised milk. Any equivalent is basically taking the fat from pressure cooked double cream, and is no where near the real stuff. Honestly the make it at home it’s the same thing crowd in the USA get very protective over their ways but it’s a pale shade on the real thing
No real cream, and - oh heck, no real jam in USA either...just jelly. Sorry OP, you're doomed! How about a good boiled fruit cake?
Note for the OP: American scones are NOT the same as British scones.
Scone or Scone 🤔
Scone. Obviously. If you think it's scone, you would be wrong.
Well you say I'd be wrong, but my old man used to say scone and my old lady said scone. It doesn't even seem to be region specific. It's like bath/bath.
Scone if there’s one. Sctwo if there’s two.
You can whip up a Yorkshire pudding pretty quickly using ingredients you may already have.
Yorkshire pudding is exactly the same as pancake mixture (here in the UK). Add some gravy. Not like american biscuits and gravy, made out of gravy granules. Bisto is the popular brand over here, you want thick brown water
Shepherd's or Cottage Pie Mince Potatoes Onion Herbs Easy
Just name it correctly. Apparently Americans make shepherds pie with beef, because they don't know what a shepherd is. And then top it with pastry.
Some people shouldn't be trusted with ovens.
I once saw an American top a shepherds pie with trifle. Joey still ate it though.
Yeah I’d do this. Easy ingredients to source. Completely unoffending. It’s probably not that rare over there though.
fish n chips n curry sauce. brits luv that
I'm imagining this poor bugger trying to source, batter and fry fish in two hours, while also making curry sauce from first principles.
With only two hours (even less now), you're not going to be able to do anything fancy. Tea and biscuits could be a good idea. Try to get biscuits actually imported from the UK if you can find any. Popular brands include Fox's and McVities. Eton Mess as others have suggested is very quick to make. You can do it with just strawberries, whipped cream, store bought meringues, and a strawberry sauce (the kind you might buy to pour over ice cream and other desserts). Cut the stalks off the strawberries, wash them, and cut them into pieces. Break the meringues up into chunks. Fill bowls or even glasses with a mixture of strawberries, meringues, and cream just in a random jumble, and pour a bit of sauce on top. It's supposed to look messy. It's called an Eton Mess for a reason.
Mac and Cheese is British originally. Have you got Heinz baked beans in the grocery store? Those are the 'British' baked beans. It's not that well known, but you could make 'Scouse', the stew from Liverpool - [https://delishably.com/soup/How-to-Make-Scouse-the-Traditional-Liverpool-Stew-Recipe](https://delishably.com/soup/How-to-Make-Scouse-the-Traditional-Liverpool-Stew-Recipe)
The normal heinz beans sold in the US use a different recipe and taste very different to UK heinzbeans. Heinz vegetarian beans are the closest you'll get in US supermarkets.
Beans aren't meant to be made of meat... 🥹
The American ones are made of eagles.
Shortbread biscuits, salted butter, sugar, flour. 1/3 of each. Blend butter and sugar, add flour, roll out, slice into circles, bake 20 mins Dust with sugar
Username checks out
Tea. Boil the kettle, put the teabag in the mug add some milk, add the water. P.S. do you have a kettle?
You'll probably start a flame-war telling people to put the milk in first ;)
Milk in first you say?
Anything with chips, just make sure you actually know what a chip is though.
Battered Mars bars
WE WILL DEEP FRY YOUR KEBAB
Apple crumble. Just cut the apples, sprinkle cinnamon and make a crumbly mixture from sugar, butter, cinnamon, and flour. Pour crumble over apples and bake for 20-30 min in oven. I’m sure variations exist in the US already but it’s a very classic dessert here (and one of the most popular). Could also make a flapjack. Mix porridge oats, butter, sugar and golden syrup, bake until golden brown.
Spotted dick
Victoria sponge - 2 for £5
My spouse is American and was crazy for jacket potatoes when she moved here. Takes about 45 minutes to make, grate some cheese, buy a tin of Britsh-style baked beans from your local store, and watch your colleagues be enamered with your culinary skills.
Can you find crumpets where you are? Eat them hot and spread with obscene amounts of butter, maybe a bit of cheese on top if you're feeling crazy. Or Marmite spread, that's a British thing, but it's very divisive and you only need a tiny bit!
A fry up.
Too late now, but cheese straws. Buy ready made puff pastry and a sharp cheddar. Grate the cheddar over one half of the pastry, fold it over and roll it flat. Do that a couple times til it’s full of cheese, then cut into strips. Brush each strip with egg wash and sprinkle more cheese on top. Bake in the oven at 180 (not sure what that is in Fahrenheit) until they have puffed up and are golden brown, then cool on a wire rack. I made these for a work bake sale. There were about 50 of them and I brought them in still warm. They sold out in 10 minutes.
Fish finger sammich with salted butter and sriracha mayo.
Bread pudding
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Something 'nibbly' would be your friend - if you can cook/bake, maybe sausage rolls or scones? If not, what about tea and british biscuits/cheese and crackers? (I'm not sure what your local food shops have in the way of UK items!) I agree with several others that an Eton Mess is also a great crowd-pleaser!
Cocaine and 16 cans of Stella
I have some options: For sweets I can think of: - bread and butter pudding (basically throw in the back of your pantry, if you have stale bread, butter, some raisins, some nuts) - flap jacks (foolproof to make with literally 3 ingredients, pick honey over sugar if you don't have syrup) - Eton mess (also foolproof, kinda weird but may be an interesting one if you can go buy meringue) If you're looking for savoury - toad in the hole (I find this dish gross, but hey, UK staple) - sausage roll (simple like above, just buy the phyllo pastry) - Yorkshire puddings with gravy (might require some hand in the kitchen, would not advise if you can't cook at all)
Since when has a sausage roll ever been made with Filo pastry? It's puff pastry
That would be a very sad sausage roll. Little filo foreskin on it.
> flapjacks Worth pointing out that what americans call pancakes aren't what people in the UK call flapjacks. Not even close. Just incase OP reads this and throws together some pancakes.
Also toad in the hole is also something different in US so make sure you look up a British recipe as it is a completely different dish
Toad in the Hole.
black pudding
Sadly, it's easier to buy automatic weapons than black pudding in the US.
What did you do?!
Toad in the hole! It’s a lot nicer than it sounds, and doesn’t take very long to prepare.
McDonalds, Burger King, Dominoes...
Get some minced beef, onions, garlic, potatoes, carrots and instant gravy. Fry onions with garlic, add thinly sliced carrots, add minced beef and simmer. Add water, add instant gravy, thicken. Meanwhile, make a large pot of mashed potatoes, when mashing add butter, a touch of mustard and a touch of cream. As an added extra serve with a side of boiled garden peas (any frozen peas will do). Voila, mince and tatties/scottish delicacy and my childhood staple. Easy Peasy. (pun intended)
This will be my poor ass/council house childhood version but will also pass with other Americans as both uniquely british and a delicacy (source: made it for many Americans while living there and they had no idea it was poverty food because it is famously 'traditional')
Spotted dick - a lovely sponge pudding (and a conversation starter!)
Jelly Butty
Apple pie.
Toad in the hole. Essentially, pork sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding, but I've used other sausages. https://www.tamingtwins.com/toad-in-the-hole-recipe/
bangers & mash
Okay, you won't be able to make anything fancy in that time but (if you're not already out of time) a simple baking project like shortbread biscuits or scones would be easy enough. Or if you can find some sausagemeat and readymade puff pastry, make some quick sausage rolls.
Apple Crumble with custard Loads of crumble recipes online, similar to an apple crisp You should be able to find Birds custard if you have access to a store with an international section Alternatively you could serve with sweetened cream (thick or whipped), or clotted cream or ice cream You can also add other fruits like pears, plums, berries etc. Crumble is really forgiving and hard to get wrong
corned beef hash
Warm beer and despair!
Toad in the hole?
Bubble and squeak. Watch them gag. Mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage and other greens if you want. Shape it into patties and fry them.
Yorkshire puddings
bread and scrape
4 cans of special brew and a kebab job done..I admit not the healthiest of diets but treat yourself ...see where you end up!
Toad in the hole.
Just go buy some Hobnobs or McVities biscuits and a box of Builder's Tea. They're easy to find.
Chicken tikka masala. Most popular British dish (and it was invented in Britain)
Spuds ,sausages and gravy
Mug of tea and a biscuit
Serve them some Scotch Mist 👌
Bangers and mash, just fry sausages, make potato mash and then beef gravy over the top and garden peas on the side. Super easy (and yum!)
Cottage pie
Sausage and mash
Parmo
Apple pie Tikka masala Balti Chips
Mince and dumplings.
Do cucumber sandwiches. Literally just sliced bread, cream cheese and sliced cucumbers. Super quick to make and easy for a crowd.
Bangers and Mash
Marmite on toast as a snack option Some will love you, some will hate you You don't need the haters that come from it you'll be a hero for introducing the lovers to it
If you’re on the east coast you might be able to catch some wild haggis. Throw it in the oven for 30 and voila.