The most common cooking techniques in British cooking are boiling and frying. The most commonly used ingredients are beef, mutton, fish, potatoes, bacon, eggs, green beans, tomatoes and some seasonal vegetables. An authentic English breakfast. There are mushrooms, sausages, baked beans in tomato sauce, bacon, fried eggs, tomatoes and toast, and sometimes there is a kind of blood sausage called "black pudding", which is made of pig blood, milk fat and grain. The barbecue on Sunday is actually a big platter of baked potatoes, barbecue and roasted vegetables (usually carrots, broccoli and green beans). However, different meats should be served with different sauces. Beef is usually served with horseradish sauce and Yorkshire pudding, pork with apple sauce, mutton with mint sauce, chicken with bread sauce, turkey with cranberry sauce and stuffing. A set of English afternoon tea must include tea, sandwiches, cakes and desserts. English afternoon tea features Darjeeling black tea, Ceylon Highland black tea and earl grey. In addition, Britain also has the habit of drinking milk tea in afternoon tea. Regular afternoon tea snacks are generally set up in the form of "three-story small four stalls": the first floor (bottom floor) is filled with sandwiches of various flavors, the second floor (middle floor) is scone, a traditional English snack, and the third floor (top floor) is cupcakes and fruit towers. This three-layer dessert should be eaten from bottom to top, from salty to sweet, from light to thick. In addition to this indispensable three-tier snack, some croissants, raisins, caviar and other foods will be placed to cater to the tastes of guests.
There are two key points in the decline of British cuisine-the industrial revolution and World War II. Most of the English foods that people are familiar with today were formed during the Industrial Revolution. The most typical is fish and chips. The development of railway transportation not only enables fish from coastal areas to be transported inland, but also greatly reduces the price of fish. Busy workers also need cheap, portable and high-calorie food. As a result, English fast food represented by fish and chips came into being. Like the industrial revolution, they changed the British way of life. The rapid development of the city has brought a huge population, which leads to the local food in London being unable to be self-sufficient, and food can only be transported from other places to meet the demand. In order to ensure the freshness of food, British people can only choose non-perishable ingredients, specifically potatoes, besides inventing canned food and other preservation methods. In the way of cooking, the British have also changed-cooking. On the one hand, boiled water can make up for the lack of food freshness; On the other hand, for British workers who have been busy all day, there is not much energy to spend on cooking. Therefore, although boiled water tastes bad, it is safe and relaxed. Therefore, the daily diet of ordinary people in Britain has become a piece of cook the meat and two kinds of boiled vegetables, one of which is potato.