RE: Cooking Languange
December 10, 2014 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2014 at 11:08 am by ManMachine.)
A bit of over the pond history.
cookie: A has already been said, biscuit. The legal definition of a biscuit in the UK is something that goes from hard to soft when stale, unlike a cake which goes from soft to hard when stale.
biscuit: In England this used to be called a cobble or a dumpling.
muffin: Not an English word, possible German or French. English muffins never existed until Americans invented them - There is, however, something called an oven borttom muffin which is a bread roll. The sweet American muffins are close to what we call fairy cakes.
stew: There are many variants of this dish in the UK and Ireland, Irish stew, Lancashire hot-pot (or 'ot pot as it's colloquially known), lobscouse (or just ''scouse'), these are all regional stews, made from scraps and plenty of potatoes as it was cheap to make and lasted in the pot for days. There are also shepherd's pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef) which are stews of meat scraps (minced usually these days) topped with mashed potato and occasionally cheese.
N.B. In the episode of Friends where Rachel mixes a 'Shepherd's Pie' with a 'Trifle' she mentions cooking beef, which would make it a Cottage Pie not a Shepherd's Pie, which is lamb.
pudding: Generally used to mean a sponge made with suet, or beef fat. Very heavy and often very very sweet (treacle, toffee, apple, etc)
There are also crumbles, these are sweet dished comprising of a layer of tart fruit (typically apple or rhubarb) topped with a crunchy crumble topping (possibly the origin of granola).
MM
cookie: A has already been said, biscuit. The legal definition of a biscuit in the UK is something that goes from hard to soft when stale, unlike a cake which goes from soft to hard when stale.
biscuit: In England this used to be called a cobble or a dumpling.
muffin: Not an English word, possible German or French. English muffins never existed until Americans invented them - There is, however, something called an oven borttom muffin which is a bread roll. The sweet American muffins are close to what we call fairy cakes.
stew: There are many variants of this dish in the UK and Ireland, Irish stew, Lancashire hot-pot (or 'ot pot as it's colloquially known), lobscouse (or just ''scouse'), these are all regional stews, made from scraps and plenty of potatoes as it was cheap to make and lasted in the pot for days. There are also shepherd's pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef) which are stews of meat scraps (minced usually these days) topped with mashed potato and occasionally cheese.
N.B. In the episode of Friends where Rachel mixes a 'Shepherd's Pie' with a 'Trifle' she mentions cooking beef, which would make it a Cottage Pie not a Shepherd's Pie, which is lamb.
pudding: Generally used to mean a sponge made with suet, or beef fat. Very heavy and often very very sweet (treacle, toffee, apple, etc)
There are also crumbles, these are sweet dished comprising of a layer of tart fruit (typically apple or rhubarb) topped with a crunchy crumble topping (possibly the origin of granola).
MM
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