There are many geographically indicated foods of the United Kingdom. In
British cuisine
British cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom. Historically, British cuisine meant "unfussy dishes made with quality local ingredients, matched with simple sauces to accentuate flavou ...
, there is a custom of naming foodstuffs with reference to their place of origin. However, there are other reasons for this practice;
Scotch egg, which was invented in London and Dover sole which indicates where they were landed, for example.
A number of such foods have been granted
Protected Geographical Status under
European Union law
European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community following World War II, the EU has developed the aim to "promote peace, its valu ...
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Aberdeen roll
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Allerdale Cheese
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Angus burger
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Arbroath smokie
The Arbroath smokie is a type of smoked haddock, and is a speciality of the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland.
History
The Arbroath smokie is said to have originated in the small fishing village of Auchmithie, three miles northeast of A ...
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Bakewell pudding
Bakewell pudding is an English dessert consisting of a flaky pastry base with a layer of sieved jam and topped with a filling made of egg and almond paste.
Etymology
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Bakewell tart
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Banbury apple pie
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Banbury cake
A Banbury cake is a spiced, oval-shaped, currant-filled pastry. Since the mid-1800s Banbury cakes have grown more similar to Eccles cake but the earlier versions of Banbury cakes are quite different from the modern pastry. Besides currants, th ...
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Barkham Blue and
Barkham Chase (cheeses)
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Bath blue (cheese)
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Bath bun
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Bath chap
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Bath Oliver biscuit
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Bedfordshire clanger (pastry)
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Belvoir Castle buns
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Berkshire jugged steak
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Berwick cockle (sweet/candy)
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Blenheim Orange (apple)
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Blue Wensleydale (cheese)
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Bonchester cheese
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Border tart
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Borrowdale teabread
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Bowland cheese (
Forest of)
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Branston pickle
Branston is an English food brand best known for the original Branston Pickle, a jarred pickled chutney first made in 1922 in the village of Branston near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire by Crosse & Blackwell. The Branston factory proved to b ...
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Brown Windsor soup
Windsor soup or Brown Windsor soup is a British soup. While commonly associated with the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the practice of calling it 'Brown Windsor' did not emerge until at least the 1920s, and the name was usually associated with l ...
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Buxton Blue cheese
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Caerphilly cheese
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Cheddar cheese
Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting. Cheddar originates from the English village of Cheddar in Somerset.
Ched ...
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Chelsea bun
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Cheshire cheese
Cheshire cheese is a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties, Denbighshire and Flintshire in Wales and Shropshire and Staffordshire in England.
History
Cheshire cheese is one of the ...
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Cheshire soup
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Coleraine cheddar
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Colchester Native Oysters
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Chorley cake
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Cornish clotted cream
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Cornish fairings (biscuits/cookies)
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Cornish Gilliflower (apple)
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Cornish pasty
A pasty () is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetab ...
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Cornish sardines
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Cornish Yarg (cheese)
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Craster kippers
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Cullen skink (soup)
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Cumberland currant and apple pasties
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Cumberland pie
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Cumberland sand cake
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Cumberland spare rib pie and
sweet lamb pie
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Cumberland sausage
Cumberland sausage is a pork sausage that originated in the ancient county of Cumberland, England, now part of Cumbria. It is traditionally very long, up to , and sold rolled in a flat, circular coil, but within western Cumbria, it is more often s ...
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Cumberland sauce
Cumberland sauce is a savoury sauce of English origin, made with redcurrant jelly, mustard, pepper and salt, Blanching (cooking), blanched orange peel, and port (wine), port wine. The food writer Elizabeth David described it as "the best of all sa ...
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Derbyshire fruit loaf
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Derbyshire medley pie
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Derbyshire oatcakes
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Devonshire mullet pie,
onion pie, and
pork pie
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Devonshire squab pie
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Durham rabbit pot pie
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Devonshire splits
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Devonshire clotted cream
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Dorset Blue Vinney cheese
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Dorset Drum (cheese)
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Dorset fair gingerbread,
luxury applecake,
rough cake, and
tea bread
A teacake in England is generally a light yeast-based Sweet roll, sweet bun containing dried fruit, typically served toasted and buttered. In the U.S. teacakes can be cookies or small cakes. In Sweden, they are soft, round, flat wheat breads ...
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Double Gloucester (cheese)
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Dovedale cheese
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Dundee cake
Dundee cake is a traditional Scottish fruit cake.
Ingredients
Dundee cake is often made with butter, sugar, lemon zest, orange zest, marmalade, flour, baking powder, eggs, milk, dried fruit, glacé cherries, candied citrus peel, currants, su ...
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Dunlop cheese
Dunlop is a mild cheese or 'sweet-milk cheese' from Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland.MacIntosh, John (1894). ''Ayrshire Nights Entertainments: A Descriptive Guide to the History, Traditions, Antiquities, etc. of the County of Ayr''. Pub. Kilmarnoc ...
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Dunsyre Blue (cheese)
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Eccles cake
An Eccles cake is a small, round pie, similar to a turnover, filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. The word cake has generally since narrowed in meaning to sweet, leavened baked good ...
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Essex meat layer pudding
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Essex Pippin (apple)
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Eton mess (dessert)
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Fine Fettle Yorkshire Cheese
Fine Fettle Yorkshire (formerly Yorkshire Feta) is a British cheese made from the milk of sheep produced in North Yorkshire by Shepherds Purse Cheeses. The owner, Judy Bell, was forced to change the cheese's name after an EU ruling meant tha ...
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Finnan haddie
Finnan haddie (also known as Finnan haddock, Finnan, Finny haddock or Findrum speldings) is cold-smoked haddock, representative of a regional method of smoking with green wood and peat in north-east Scotland.
Origin
The origin of finnan haddi ...
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Findon or
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Five Counties cheese
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Flower of Kent (apple)
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Forfar bridie (pasty)
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Grasmere gingerbread
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Glamorgan sausage
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Gloucester cheese stew
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Gloucester pancakes
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Goosnargh
Goosnargh ( ) is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston district of Lancashire, England.
The village lies between Broughton and Longridge, and mostly lies in the civil parish of Whittingham, although the ancient centre lies in ...
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Glory of York
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Grimsby smoked fish
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Hampshire haslet (meatloaf)
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Harwich Kitchels (pastries)
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Hawick Balls (sweets/candy)
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Hereford apple dumplings
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Hereford Hop
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Ipswich almond pudding
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Ipswich lemon pie
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Isle of Wight doughnuts
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Jethart snails
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Jersey Royal potato
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Kendal mint cake (candy)
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Kentish cheese and apple pie
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Kelvedon Wonder Pea
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Kirriemuir Ginger Bread
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Lanark Blue (cheese)
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Lancashire cheese
Lancashire is an English cow's-milk cheese from the county of Lancashire. There are three distinct varieties of Lancashire cheese. Young ''Creamy Lancashire'' and mature ''Tasty Lancashire'' are produced by a traditional method, whereas ''Crumbly ...
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Hindle Wakes (chicken dish)
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Lancashire hotpot (stew)
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Leicester pudding
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Lincoln biscuit
A Lincoln biscuit is a circular short dough biscuit of the shortcake variety, most commonly decorated on one side with a pattern of raised dots.
The McVitie's version had the word 'Lincoln' embossed on the center of the biscuit.
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Lincolnshire Poacher (cheese)
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Lincolnshire sausage
Lincolnshire sausages are a distinctive variety of pork sausage developed in and associated with the English county of Lincolnshire.
A widely available variety at most UK butchers and supermarkets, the sausage is commonly dominated by the herb s ...
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Little Derby (cheese)
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London bun
A London bun is a square-shaped bun made of rich yeast dough flavored with currants and candied peel topped with white sugar icing or crystallised sugar.
Formerly a popular teatime bun, its nearest still-popular equivalent is the Bath bun. N ...
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Maidstone biscuit
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Malvern pudding
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Manchester tart
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Manx Queenie (shellfish)
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Marauding Scot (dessert)
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Melton Mowbray pork pie
A pork pie is a traditional English meat pie, usually served either at room temperature or cold (although often served hot in Yorkshire). It consists of a filling of roughly chopped pork and pork fat, surrounded by a layer of jellied pork stock ...
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Merseyside meat pie
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Moffat toffee
Moffat toffee is a boiled sweet made in the Scottish town of Moffat.
The confection is notable for its tangy but sweet centre which gives the sweet its unusual flavour.
The Moffat Toffee old family recipe is thought to have been used for the fi ...
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Newmarket sausage
The Newmarket sausage is a pork sausage made to a traditional recipe from the English town of Newmarket, Suffolk. Two varieties of Newmarket Sausage are made branded with the names of two different family butchers. Both are sold widely throughout ...
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Norbury blue (cheese)
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Norfolk dumplings
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Norfolk plough pudding
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Northamptonshire cheese cake
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Nottingham pudding
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Oxford marmalade
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Oxford sausage
Oxford sausages are a distinctive variety of pork and veal sausage commonly associated with, and thought to have been developed in, the English city of Oxford. Traditionally, Oxford sausages are noted for the addition of veal, in contrast to man ...
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Pontefract cakes
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Red Leicester cheese
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Red Windsor cheese
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Sage Derby cheese
Sage Derby is a variety of Derby cheese that is mild, mottled green and semi-hard, and has a sage flavour. The colour is from sage and sometimes other colouring added to the curds, producing a marbling effect and a subtle herb flavour. The colou ...
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Sandwich
A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a po ...
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Scotch pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...
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Scotch pie
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Scotch broth
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Scotch egg
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Scotch woodcock (egg dish)
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Selkirk bannock (bread)
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Shrewsbury cake
A Shrewsbury cake or Shrewsbury biscuit is a classic English dessert, named after Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire. They are made from dough that contains sugar, flour, egg, butter and lemon zest; dried fruit is also often added. Shrews ...
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Shropshire blue (cheese)
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Shropshire fidget pie
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Single Gloucester (cheese)
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Somerset Brie (cheese)
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Somerset Camembert (cheese)
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Somerset chicken
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Staffordshire beef steaks
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Staffordshire cheese
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Staffordshire oatcake
A Staffordshire oatcake (a type of savoury pancake) is made from oatmeal, flour and yeast to make a dense pancake. It is cooked on a griddle, "backstone" or "baxton". The oatcake is a local speciality in the North Staffordshire area of Engla ...
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Stichelton (cheese)
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Stilton cheese
Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has '' Penicillium roqueforti'' added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which does not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of o ...
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Stornoway black pudding
Stornoway black pudding is a type of black pudding ( gd, marag-dhubh) made in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Characteristics
Jeremy Lee described it as "... arguably the best sausage made in the UK"
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Strathdon Blue (cheese)
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Suffolk buns
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Suffolk cakes
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Suffolk swimmers (dumplings)
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Suffolk fish pie
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Suffolk harvest cake
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Suffolk raisin roly-poly (dessert)
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Suffolk red cabbage
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Suffolk stew
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Surrey lamb pie
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Sussex Pond Pudding (dessert)
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Swaledale cheese
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Tewkesbury mustard
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Tintern (cheese)
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Tottenham cake
Tottenham () is a town in North London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton to the north, Walthamst ...
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Tymsboro' (Timsbury) (cheese)
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Tyneside floddies (breakfast dish)
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Welsh cake
Welsh cakes ( cy, picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacennau cri or '), also bakestones or pics, are a traditional list of sweet breads , sweet bread in Wales. They have been popular since the late 19th century with the addition of fat, sugar and dried ...
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Welsh dragon pork sausage
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Welsh rabbit or rarebit (toast dish)
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Wensleydale cheese
Wensleydale is a style of cheese originally produced in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, but now mostly made in large commercial creameries throughout the United Kingdom. The term "Yorkshire Wensleydale" can only be used for cheese that ...
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Worcester pearmain (apple)
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Worcestershire sauce
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Y Fenni (Abergavenny) cheese
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Yorkshire blue (cheese)
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Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
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Yorkshire pudding (roast dinner accompaniment)
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