Treacle tart is an English dessert made with light treacle—golden syrup. It is best served warm and traditionally with a dollop of clotted cream. I talk more about Golden Syrup and where to find it in my post about Treacle Fudge. Treacle…
This public house isn’t known just for Butterbeer. The Three Broomsticks, like any good pub, has a menu of classic British favorites— like Fish and Chips. This pairing of battered meat and fried potatoes (think steak fries) is usually served with barley…
A bacon sandwich is said to be Ronald Weasley’s personal comfort food and Harry gets to enjoy some with the rest of the Weasleys while staying at The Burrow during the summer. They wolf some down as a quick brunch before heading to…
I don’t believe there is anything more quintessentially Harry Potter than Pumpkin Pasties. It may surprise some of you that I have been making vegetarian cornish pasties for ages, long before I picked up The Sorcerer’s Stone, you’ll see a…
Spotted Dick is a difficult dish for Americans to understand. All jokes aside, Spotted Dick is an English steamed pudding. More like a hot, moist pound cake than American pudding. When Americans talk about pudding, we think of those little…
Bubble and Squeak are little cakes of fried vegetables, typically potatoes and cabbage. The name ‘bubble and squeak’ was coined in 1785 to describe the noises it made when cooked over a fire. I remember it mentioned as a child…
As a child that actually played dress-up and threw tea parties, crumpets always seems the quintessential English Upperclass thing to serve one’s guests. Though, truth be said—I had no clue what a crumpet was. I imagined it to be something…