Lord Garth wrote:
"Phil Hobbs" wrote in message
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It isn't English food that's bad, it's English _restaurants_ (except the
foreign ones). Real English food is stuff like roast beef with
Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes, cold game pie, steamed
three-ginger pudding, rhubarb-strawberry pie, the kind of stuff Bertie
Wooster ate...and I grew up on. Amazing. We used to have Porterhouse
*roasts* when I was a kid. You just can't get it in restaurants.


What is a cold game pie?



It's usually made in a loaf pan, with a savoury crust top and bottom.
Inside it's half-inch cubes of a mixture of venison, pheasant,
partridge, duck, rabbit, or whatever the beaters shook out yesterday,
embedded in jellied stock from boiling same. It usually has, iirc,
salt, pepper, sage and rosemary in it. It's served as a cold dish,
sliced. The gelatine holds it all together--it's pretty looking as well
as very very tasty. An old Christmas holiday standby.

Chicken pot pie is another English specialty. All good
stick-to-the-ribs stuff from the days before central heating or house
insulation.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs