How to eat the British ?

They shouldn't do that unless you've (a) forgotten to get the oven nice and hot (b) forgotten the salt or (c) made the batter too runny.

 

Yes.
Sometimes I wonder if different people have similiar dishes because they copy each other or just because they had the same idea (probably If they live in alike cool-weather places they have the same kind of crops and animals and are likely to develop the same kind of cooking).

 

In Spain they have patatas bravas. Basically boiled potatoes with tomato sauce, herbs, and lots and lots of chilli. Its one of the Spanish dishes you can usually find at your local Indian takeaway, where it is usually listed as Bombay Potatoes.

Remember that throughout history its been a consistent human characteristic to sneak onto someone else's land to see what they've got, have a few fights, breed a bit, then run home with all their new fruit and veg and ideas.

Did you know that Lasagne was pinched off us English? I saw somet on telly once where they'd found the earliest known recipe for something that we now call lasagne, and it was written in ye olde English

 

Reply: "Buy Car with money you gain when you work"
NO WORK - NO CAR (look what a perfect half blank Czech accent with no articles...)

 

No, I did'n know.
Well, that's the way it is.
As far as Indian Cousine and Spanish/mexican Cousine I could also think about something that in Biology is called "Convergent evolution".
From Wikipedia:
"Convergent evolution describes the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages."
"Similarity can also result if organisms occupy similar ecological niches —that is, a distinctive way of life.A classic comparison is between the marsupial fauna of Australia and the placental mammals of the Old World."

I mean:
probably, similar climate conditions in some parts of India as in Mexico (and sometimes in Spain) made those populations to grow vegetables with similar properties, to breed similar animals and to develop a similar kind of Cousine...

 

No. It was definitely about conquest. Spain didn't even have chillis until they invaded South America and saw them growing wild there. They developed a taste for them, took some home, and in their treaty with Portugal (which led to Spain getting most of South America but Portugal also getting a bit) Portugal too got them. Portugal also acquired a taste for them and they took some home. They also took some with them when they decided to steal parts of India (before us) and south east asia. Thus, a fruit native to South America strangely made its way into the staple diets of lots of countries in lots of parts of the world. By pure coincidence, it got to all the countries that the Spanish and the Portugese invaded after they'd discovered chillis and peppers in South America.

 

It was called 'Boot Leather in Ye Olde Custard Sauce' back in those days.

 

Eventually, a "co-production" ITALY-UKRAINE manufactured:
1. YORKSHIRE PUDDING. Here the photo:


2. YORKSHIRE PUDDING WITH ONION GRAVY. Here the photo:


That's funny...
I mean: it looks like - with globalization - a traditional british dish is done by foreigners...
Fancy that - my friends the british: when a time will be when - say - your traditional dish like - as you said - "Yorkshire Pudding with Onion Gravy" will be done by the Chinese...
: YORKSHIRE PUDDING WITH ONION GRAVY MADE IN CHINA

 

Nice one Maksim Next thing will be "Tea like Mamma makes"

 

Going back to the orginal query ...

My sister, Kedi-Gato of Germany, Oldenburg in the North (and sometimes Florida) has lived in Germany since 1967 and is a member of this forum.

She gets up early (to me) and has toast with butter and jam (homemade with her in Germany) and tea (English) maybe some biscuits.

When her German husband gets up later they have fresh fruit, juice, tea, toast and jam. When they are here we then may have an English-type breakfast when my American husband gets up at brunch-time so it's eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, etc, etc ..

Midday they have a big cooked meal, ie, beef/pork roast with potatoes and vegetables ... or when they are here that would be 7ish or so.

4-5ish they have home-made cakes and tea/coffee.

7ish they have bread, cheese, cold meats, pickles, etc, unless they are here with the above-mentioned meal but still may have some bread, cheese and cold meats beforehand.

Later they may have another snack of some sorts before bedtime.

I have left drinks out of the situation because there may be snacks, peanuts and such like involved ...

This is what I understand.

Sis is a member of this forum but now does not visit often so I may be speaking out of turn on her behalf.

 

Maksim, you forgot the important information. Did you like it?

 

Brilliant Maksim.....Seen as you've shown us yours...i'll show you mine:WINK1:

Made in Yorkshire......

 

Just like when I make spaghetti bolognese, or chinese style special fried rice, its a perfectly acceptable approximation. The Chinese takeaways here usually sell English dishes too. They never quite get it right but its close enough.

Anyway, the Yorkshire pudding has been made by foreigners for years and years. You can get roast beef and Yorkshire pudding in lancashire, and you can't tell me that every pub and carvery restaurant in lancashire has hired in a Yorkshire chef

 

Or indeed a chef