| British | US |
| A |
Aubergine |
eggplant |
| B |
Back Bacon |
similar to Canadian bacon |
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Bake Blind |
bake a pastry case empty, by covering with wax paper and weighing down with beans |
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Bangers |
sausage |
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Bap |
hamburger bun |
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Baron Of Beef |
two sirloins in one roast |
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Beetroot |
beet |
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Bilberry |
blueberry |
|
Biscuit |
cracker or cookie |
|
Biscuit |
cookie or cracker (sweet biscuit or savoury biscuit) |
|
Boiled |
sweet hard candy |
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Brill |
something like a small turbot |
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Broad |
bean fava bean |
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Broad Bean |
fava bean |
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Brown Bread |
wholemeal bread |
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Brown Stock |
beef stock |
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Bully Beef |
corned beef |
| C |
Candyfloss |
cotton candy |
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Caster Sugar |
superfine granulated |
|
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 |
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Chipolata |
small pork sausage |
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Chips |
french-fried potatoes |
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Chips |
french fries |
|
Chocolate Vermicelli |
chocolate sprinkles |
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Chump Chop |
a type of lamb chop |
|
Cider |
hard cider |
|
Cling Film |
plastic wrap |
|
Clingfilm |
plastic wrap |
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Coal Fish/Coley |
black cod |
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Coffee Sugar |
sugar in large brightly-coloured crystals |
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Collops |
meatballs |
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Coriander Leaves |
cilantro |
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Corn |
almost any grain (see maize and sweetcorn) |
|
Corn Flour |
corn starch |
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Corned Beef |
canned pressed ham (see salt beef) |
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Cornflour |
cornstarch |
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Cornish Pasty |
meat turnover |
|
Cos |
lettuce romaine |
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Courgette |
zucchini |
|
Courgette |
zucchini |
|
Cream, Double |
heavy cream |
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Cream, Single |
light cream |
|
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 |
| D |
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 |
|
Dripping |
fat from roasted meat |
| E |
Endive |
chicory |
| F |
Faggot |
meatball |
|
Fairy |
cake cupcake |
|
Fillet Steak |
tenderloin steak |
|
Finnan Haddie |
smoked haddock |
|
Fish Fingers |
fish sticks |
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Fish Slice |
spatula |
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Flour, Maize |
cornmeal |
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Flour, Strong |
bread flour; hard-wheat flour |
|
Forcemeat |
stuffing mixture for meat or fish |
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French Bean |
green bean |
|
French Beans |
string beans |
| G |
Gammon |
ham |
|
Gammon |
large, thick, round piece of ham |
|
Garibaldi |
hard rectangular currant cookie |
|
Ginger Nut |
ginger snap |
|
Golden Syrup |
substitute light corn syrup |
|
Golden Syrup |
something like corn syrup |
|
Greaseproof Paper |
wax paper |
|
Green Pepper |
bell pepper |
|
Groundnut |
peanut |
| H |
Hand Of Pork |
pork shoulder roast |
|
Heaped Spoonful |
heaping spoonful |
| I |
Icing |
frosting |
|
Icing Sugar |
confectioners' sugar |
|
Icing Sugar |
powdered (confectioner's) sugar |
|
|
| J |
Jacket Potato |
baked potato |
|
Joint |
large cut of meat with bone; roast |
| L |
Liquor |
(in some contexts, notably in eel-and-pie shops) parsley sauce |
|
Liver Sausage |
liverwurst |
| M |
Maize |
corn |
|
Marrow |
zucchini-like squash |
|
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 |
| O |
Offal |
variety meats (liver, heart, kidney) |
|
Oxford Sauce |
cumberland sauce |
| P |
Perry |
hard cider made from pears instead of apples |
|
Pie Dish |
deep baking dish |
|
Pig's Trotter |
pig's foot |
|
Pine Kernels |
pine nuts |
|
Pips |
seeds |
|
Pluck |
heart, liver, and lights (lungs) |
|
Plum Duff |
plum pudding |
|
Polony |
bologna |
|
Porridge |
cooked oatmeal |
|
Prawn |
small shrimp |
|
Pudding |
dessert |
| R |
Ring Doughnut |
doughnut |
|
Rump Steak |
sirloin |
| S |
Sack |
sweet sherry |
|
Salt Beef |
corned beef |
|
Shandy |
beer with lemonade |
|
Sherbet |
powdered candy |
|
Silverside |
beefcut from the rump |
|
Single Cream |
light cream |
|
Sirloin |
porterhouse steak |
|
Slice |
bar cookie |
|
Sponge Finger |
ladyfinger |
|
Squash |
juice drink |
|
Stoned |
seeded |
|
Sugar Crystals |
see coffee sugar |
|
Sultanas |
golden raisins |
|
Swede |
yellow turnip |
|
Sweetcorn |
whole-kernel corn |
| T |
Tart |
pie |
|
Toffee |
taffy |
|
Treacle |
molasses |
|
Tunny |
tuna |
| W |
Whipping Cream |
halfway between light and heavy cream |
|
White Stock |
chicken or fish stock |
|
Whitebait |
small silvery fish, usually deep-fried whole |
